look i know that sound cant travel through space, but i just want to know, is there a way for us to hear what the sun sounds like? my friend told me it sounds like a giant flame burning, but i dont really believe them, can someone answer my question please?
Strictly speaking not as you and I think of sound, but here's a page to get you started.
Kind of like "if a tree falls in the forest…"
As you said, sound can't travel through space, and there's no way you're going to get recording equipment close enough. But does it make sound? There's a neat little thought experiment.
Edit: Or what 3WMElliott said!
Hear the music before the song is over…
There's a video here.
the video you sent me bikenbeer2000 i watched it, it sounds like someone swinging a lightsaber.
I think i remember a doco on Discovery and these scientist some how had made a recording of the sound of the sun?? Just can't remember what the doco was called.
"doing nothing is not an option"
"Sound" as we are familiar with, is caused by vibration of air or some other medium. SONAR works by using sound through water, GPR (ground penetrating rader) produces sound through soil and rock. There MUST be something for the sound to make "waves" with. There is nothing in space (or nothing dense enough) to carry these waves or vibrations. So, no - the sun does not produce "sound".
It DOES however, produce enormous amounts of electrmagnetic waves, as well as atomic and subatomic particles - that can travel through a vacuum, needing no "medium" to carry them. Electromagetic waves consist of visible light, heat, radio waves, and x-rays. The particles stream out in what is described as "solar wind" - still nearly as close to a perfect vacuum as can be imagined. When these particles collide with each other, or anything else, a tiny amount of energy is released, and can be detected as a "crackle", or static on radio and TV. There are also theories they cause the occasional "sparks" or flashes one sees when their eyes are closed. The electromagnetic waves can be seen or felt. We see the light, feel the heat, but the radio and x-rays can only be detected by instruments that are used to convert these otherwise undetectable forces into forms we can study. The recordings that you can listen to are no more than "tuning into" the frequency of that radiation with radio equipment, and converting it to sound, no different that picking up "Rock 97.3 - Home of the Oldies" on your FM dial.