2007-03-12 12:15:39 · 8 answers · asked by claire 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is space between the Sun and the Earth. Sound requires a relatively dense medium to travel through, which space does not provide. There is just plain not enough stuff out there to carry the waves.
2007-03-12 12:18:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sound is composed of waves that require a medium through which to travel. While this medium can range from air, to solid objects, to water, they all need to be dense enough to transmit energy from one particle to another, and another, and another until the wave reaches an ear drum or recording device. The reason that sound can not travel from the sun to the earth is that there is no suitable medium through which it can travel. While this may or may not be different in certain cosmic anomalies, such as dense helium and hydrogen clouds, the cosmic rays emitted by the sun have pushed any such particles either into or far beyond the Oort cloud. However, recordings have been made of the sun from the outer layers of its atmosphere, due to the collection of particles that are constantly being pushed out of the sun due to nuclear fusion, and then sucked back in by gravity, and I must say, it is an amazing sound.
2007-03-12 12:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by shabushabu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound needs a medium to travel into. Medium such as air & water. Yes, sound travels underwater hence for the SONAR (SO-und N-avigating A-nd R-anging) used by submarines. Sound can't travel from the sun to the earth because there is no medium present when your in outer space. Outer space is a vacuum, meaning absence of Air and any other medium for that matter.
2007-03-12 21:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by lycan_888 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's how it works ...
Our Sun lies 93,000,000 miles away, surrounded by the vacuum of space. Sound won't travel through space, of course. But with the right instrument, scientists can "hear" pulsations from the Sun.
The entire Sun vibrates from a complex pattern of acoustical waves, much like a bell. If your eyes were sharp enough, you could see a bell's surface jiggle in complex patterns as the waves bounced around within it.
.. we have people listening to the sounds of the sun at our observatory .
you can hear it on the internet too
2007-03-12 17:28:39 · answer #4 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space is a vaccum that lack of oxygen, it absorbs the sound only instead letting the sound travel. It needs oxygen to create soundwave so the sound can travel.
2007-03-12 17:05:16 · answer #5 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sound travels in air. It can not travel to the sun.
2007-03-12 12:23:13 · answer #6 · answered by lestermount 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is a vacuum. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
2007-03-12 12:22:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think sound needs air.
2007-03-12 12:23:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋