Fun fact: if the Solar System had an atmosphere that stretched from the Sun to the Earth (at least) then the sound of the Sun from Earth would be ~100dB.
IIRC the Sun converts ~4.5 million tons of mass into energy every second and even then, there are objects that are trillions of times more energetic/violent. The first LIGO detection I believe converted 5 Solar masses into energy in about a second.
You just reminded me of https://spacesounds.com which I remember seeing in the very early 2000s and thinking it was awesome.
And 4.5 million tons of mass/second may be unimaginably huge, but the Sun is so big it can also do that constantly for literally billions and billions of years. And it's not even an especially big star!
Do we have any idea what it would sound like?
Looking online I found this:
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/sounds-of-the-sun/
But it's not realistic because:
> Finally, he interpolated over the missing data and scaled the data (speeded it up a factor 42,000 to bring it into the audible human-hearing range (kHz)).
Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAesteoeoF4
but it's not actually sound, it's converting EM waves into sound:
> ...recording frequency and amplitude information about these plasma waves that scientists can then play as sound waves.
So I'm really curious if the genuine sound of the sun would just be white noise, like a waterfall or rumble, or with defined frequences (hums), or if it's all so low-frequency or high-frequency or something that it isn't even audible?
One of the detections was of a merger that momentarily had a higher power output than the entire rest of the visible universe combined.