"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers 94
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have recorded the "music" produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun. They discovered that the huge magnetic loops that coil away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument or behave like soundwaves traveling through a wind instrument. From the article: "Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, head of the solar physics research group at Sheffield University, said, 'It was strangely beautiful and exciting to hear these noises for the first time from such a large and powerful source. It is a sort of music as it has harmonics. It is providing us with a new way of learning about the sun and giving us a new insight into the physics that goes on at in the sun's outer layers where temperatures reach millions of degrees.'"
yep (Score:5, Insightful)
WTF (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't wanna persue the captain obvious degree but... this has been posted sooooo many times before on /. and other sites and it this has already been done one freakijng year ago...
Like... COOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEE OOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!
"and speeding it up..." (Score:5, Insightful)
"Look here Cap'n, if I play it back at 10 times speed. Now I figure that's gotta be manmade."
Seriously, this isn't music, its something which happens to have a harmonic. They diddle the frequencies to the 20-20kHz range and pretend its "sun music".
Re:"and speeding it up..." (Score:3, Insightful)
Doesn't seem any different to me, in spirit, to the color-enhanced photos taken by the Hubble telescope.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/index.php [hubblesite.org]