Discovering the music of the sun

For the first time, astronomers have discovered that the magnetic field of the atmosphere outside the sun produces mysterious sound tunes. This discovery may open new avenues of understanding the sun's outbreaks before they happen.

The Sun is a star with active magnetic fields, strongly changing every year and changing direction after 11 years. The Sun's magnetic field intensity causes a number of effects, often called the Sun's activity, that manifest through surface black spots and radiation in the solar wind.

All matter in the Sun is in gaseous and plasma form due to its high temperature. This can make the velocity rotate in the equator (about 25 days) faster in higher latitudes (about 35 days near the poles). Different rotational velocities at the Sun's latitudes create magnetic lines that twist into each other over time, creating flares, based on their shape.

Scientists at the University of Sheffield, England have discovered, these giant fire ears vibrate like strings. More precisely, their activity resembles sound waves when passing through instruments.

The vibration caused by the rings of the Sun's magnetic field is like the sound waves produced by guitar strings.

Using satellite images of magnetic rings that can extend up to 96,000 kilometers from the sun's surface, scientists can recreate their sound by turning vibrations into noises, then increase the frequency to the pitch that the human ear can hear.

Professor Robertus von Fay-Siebenbregn, the leader of the research team said: 'The sound brings us all excitement. For the first time, we could hear "music" from a strong, big place like the sun. It is like a great harmony '.

According to scientists, solar flares are related to magnetic storms, causing consequences such as disrupting electrical equipment, causing wire to overload, destroying satellites .

Last weekend, scientists at NASA warned that solar activity is beginning to increase, extend the cycle at the lower level, having cards that increase the energy level from the field is difficult to predict about the Solar System in 2013 .

Professor Fay said, the study of the "music of the sun" offers entirely new ways to understand and predict the "solar wind" waves before they happen. Solar flares vibrate from side to side, like guitar strings, with waves generated by explosions on the Sun's surface.

Over time, this wave will die, this will give us interesting things about the physics of the solar atmosphere.