Saturday, April 21, 2007

Not As Allegorical As You Might Think

Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this;
shout aloud, O earth beneath.
Burst into song, you mountains,
you forests and all your trees,
for the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
he displays his glory in Israel.
(Isaiah 44:23, NIV)

Astronomers have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere....

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...

Read the whole story, Sun's Atmosphere Sings, here.


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