Darwi is a scientist who took this picture of the Sun with her telescope. (Not her very own telescope, of course, and I guess she didn't really take it, but anyway, she works with it.) I recently asked her if the Sun makes noise, and she told me it does--and you can hear it!
Here: she sent me the link to Stanford Solar Center's The Singing Sun.
They explain it all in simple terms.
They say the sun sings, but to me it sounds like a cat purring. Listening to it was oddly moving--the idea that it's out there purring and we're such nosy darlings we have to figure out how to listen in. Kinda like kids playing in the mud.
Space exploration is such a nice counterbalance to reading about our less darling sides on display in Slovakia.
[image from Big Bear Solar Observatory]
