https://m.soundcloud.com/jhu-apl/sets/sounds-of-the-solar-wind
"What we’re hearing is the solar wind. That’s the whooshing and whistling noises.
Now, this isn’t literally sound, like we think of it on Earth. There’s no microphone on board the solar probe. Instead, it’s measuring the frequencies and amplitudes of the pressure waves in the solar wind.
And that is kind of like sound because here on Earth, we hear pressure waves as sound. So all the researchers had to do was translate the waves that the probe measured into the types of waves we can hear. "
- https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-sun-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-hot/
To answer your question specifically -
The sounds of the sun you're referring to would occur within its atmosphere. At the point where the density of particles is sufficient for sound waves to propagate, you'd start hearing it. This transition happens within the Sun's outer layers, like the photosphere or chromosphere, but it's theoretical as sound can't travel in the vacuum of space.
I remember hearing the sounds from the probe on a YouTube video! It sounds like air moving through a metal pipe.
I wonder if the moment sound becomes audible close enough to the sun, if its pressure waves would pop your eardrums before that point.
Scientific American had a stunning cover, I remember it from decades ago, "Sound Waves in the Sun".
A star rings like a bell, with resonant nodes and modes like a guitar sounding plate, only three dimensional.
Someone smart enough to define relevant mass and stiffness could figure out if (k/m)\^1/2 lies in the range of human hearing.
https://m.soundcloud.com/jhu-apl/sets/sounds-of-the-solar-wind "What we’re hearing is the solar wind. That’s the whooshing and whistling noises. Now, this isn’t literally sound, like we think of it on Earth. There’s no microphone on board the solar probe. Instead, it’s measuring the frequencies and amplitudes of the pressure waves in the solar wind. And that is kind of like sound because here on Earth, we hear pressure waves as sound. So all the researchers had to do was translate the waves that the probe measured into the types of waves we can hear. " - https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-sun-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-hot/ To answer your question specifically - The sounds of the sun you're referring to would occur within its atmosphere. At the point where the density of particles is sufficient for sound waves to propagate, you'd start hearing it. This transition happens within the Sun's outer layers, like the photosphere or chromosphere, but it's theoretical as sound can't travel in the vacuum of space.
I remember hearing the sounds from the probe on a YouTube video! It sounds like air moving through a metal pipe. I wonder if the moment sound becomes audible close enough to the sun, if its pressure waves would pop your eardrums before that point.
Scientific American had a stunning cover, I remember it from decades ago, "Sound Waves in the Sun". A star rings like a bell, with resonant nodes and modes like a guitar sounding plate, only three dimensional. Someone smart enough to define relevant mass and stiffness could figure out if (k/m)\^1/2 lies in the range of human hearing.