Playing the sun
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Fri, 2007-04-20 07:57.
I wonder what key it would be in?
BBC News: ‘Pipe organ’ plays above the Sun
Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun’s atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say.
These “coronal loops” carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.[…]
“The effect is much like plucking a guitar string,” Professor Robert von Fay-Siebenbuergen told BBC News at the National Astronomy Meeting in Preston.
My first thought is a science fiction story, naturally, about a galactic traveler searching out the best stars to play. I’ll save that idea for later.