THE ROMANTIC DANCE BETWEEN THE
SUN AND THE EARTH
A satellite called
‘Transition
Region
and Coronal Explorer’
(NASA) discovered that
the Sun sounds and
behaves like a musical
instrument. This sophisticated and ultraviolet
observatory studies the
solar corona. The solar
explosions
generate
Plasma rings or electrified gas that causes
sound waves. These are
propagated from arc to bombs, the solar exploarc:
sions send the acoustic
sounds through these
‘The sound is very simi- ‘arcs’ at dozens of kilolar to the one you obtain metres per second:
while plucking the guitar’, said Robert von Jay- ‘We can now say that
Siebenburgen – Head these
are
acoustic
of the Solar Physics waves and these waves
and Research Centre, are excited by exploin a statement for BBC sions at the foot points
Television. Releasing of these loops’, said the
the equivalent energy Mathematician Youra
of millions of Hydrogen Taroyan of the University
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