Sweet Sounds of Space

Astronauts have discovered musical sounds coming from the sun. The sounds can't be heard by human though, the notes are too low. They go as low as a thousdanth of a hertz. "The study, presented this week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Lancashire, England, reveals that the looping magnetic fields along the Sun’s outer regions, called the corona, carry magnetic sound waves in a similar manner to musical instruments such as guitars or pipe organs. "