---
title: "If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying"
description: "Assuming the vacuum of space didn’t prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? That’s the question posed by a recent article from Astronomy Magazine. You might imagine the screaming sun planet from the popular Sci-Fi cartoon, Rick and Morty. Thankfully our Sun seems quiet, but despite gently shining […]"
date: "2020-02-06"
modified: "2020-02-06"
authors:
  - name: "Jacob Banas"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jake"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/sound-of-the-sun"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "solar system"
  - "space"
  - "Sun"
  - "the digest"
---

# If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

![Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/if-sound-traveled-through-space-sun-extremely-annoying.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: NASA/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Here Comes the Sun

If the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like?

That's the question posed by a [delightful new piece](<http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/02/what-would-the-sun-sound-like>) from *Astronomy Magazine* — a concept that invokes the screaming sun planet from the popular sci-fi cartoon "Rick and Morty."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvvsw21PgIk

## I Scream, You Scream

Thankfully our Sun *seems* quiet, but the harsh reality is that if we could hear the sound of the Sun, it would probably be maddening.

The massive ball of super-heated plasma undergoes constant convection cycles in which millions of pockets of super-hot gasses, [each about the size of Texas](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/highest-def-photo-sun>), rise and fall.

"That’s an extraordinarily violent process — it would create a tremendous amount of sound," Heliophysicist Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute’s Department of Space Studies told *Astronomy*.

## Sounds of Silence

By DeForest's calculations, according to *Astronomy*, the Sun would sound like "10,000 Earths covered in police sirens, all screaming.”

After traveling 92 million miles from the Sun to Earth, he believes, the sound would fall to about 100 decibels, like a constant rock concert. Long enough exposure could cause hearing damage.

Mercifully, though, the vacuum of space prevents the transmission of sound.

***Read More:*** [What would the Sun sound like?](<http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/02/what-would-the-sun-sound-like>) \[*Astronomy*\]

***More Cool Sun Facts:*** [The Highest Def Photo of the Sun Looks Like Caramel Popcorn](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/highest-def-photo-sun>)

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