How loud is the sun?

DeForest pegs the sun's din on Earth at around 100 decibels, a bit quieter than the speakers at a rock concert. That's during the day, of course. At night, as we turn away from the sun, the roar would fade.
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How loud is the Sun at the surface?

The answer might surprise you, as solar physicists estimate that the solar surface noise would be approximately 100dB by the time it reaches Earth! The enormity of the sun's surface paired with its capability of generating of tens of thousands of watts of sound energy per meter makes the sun astronomically loud.
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What is the loudest sound in the universe?

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption was the loudest sound recorded on Earth, but there are much louder sounds in space, even though we technically can't hear them.
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Can you hear the Sun?

Today, we can hear the Sun's movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with our own ears. This sound helps scientists study what can't be observed with the naked eye.
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How loud is a black hole?

Converting the energy of 1,100 decibels to mass yields 1.113x1080 kg, meaning that the radius of the resulting black hole's event horizon would exceed the diameter of the known universe. Voila!
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Can we create 1100 dB?

so to get 1100 dB, you need to explode 1*10^85 atomic bombs or 1 with 85 zeros on the right. Yes, that will create a blackhole.
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How many decibels is a nuke?

Nuclear bomb – Explosion

A nuclear bomb explosion has been reported to be 240 to 280 dB+. A sound level meter set 250 feet away from test sites peaked at 210 decibels.
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How loud is the moon?

However, the Moon is in space, and space is mostly a vacuum (there are always some atoms floating around, but they are VERY far apart and don't interact with one another). Thus there is no sound on the Moon.
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How loud is space?

No, you cannot hear any sounds in near-empty regions of space. Sound travels through the vibration of atoms and molecules in a medium (such as air or water). In space, where there is no air, sound has no way to travel.
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Does the sun scream?

Radio screams

Like the calm before a storm (but louder), they found that coronal mass ejections with shocks capable of unleashing radio storms are preceded by "screams" in radio waves as they barrel through the solar wind.
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How loud is 1100 decibels?

40 decibels is 10 times more powerful than 30 decibels. Each time the decibel number goes up by 10, the power of the sound is multiplied by 10. The number 1100 is like starting with 10 decibels, and adding 10 on 109 times. That means 1100 is 10109 times more powerful than 10 decibels.
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Is there sound in a black hole?

When bumped up to human frequencies, the sounds of the black hole are almost akin to the wails of a haunting ghost or the deep ocean calls of a pod of whales. While this particular sound of space is new, NASA has associated the Perseus galaxy cluster with sound since 2003.
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Why is 194 dB the loudest sound possible?

A sound of 194 dB has a pressure deviation of 101.325 kPa, which is ambient pressure at sea level, at 0 degrees Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). Essentially, at 194 dB, the waves are creating a complete vacuum between themselves. You can go louder than 194 dB, but that's not technically a “sound” anymore.
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How hot does the sun burn?

The continual nuclear fusion, causes energy to build up and the sun's core reaches temperatures of about 27 million degrees F (15 million degrees C). The energy then radiates outward to the sun's surface, atmosphere and beyond.
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Would the sun be deafening?

The sun would be absolutely deafening. This is because the sun, though it may look smooth and calm from Earth, is actually a maelstrom of superheated plasma. The nuclear reactions that power a star cause massive convection cells of superheated gas to rise and fall constantly across its surface.
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How loud is a supernova?

If we suppose that the same fraction of a supernova's energy is converted to sound, and a supernova releases 1044 joules, That means that about 1044/(840 billion) = 1032 Joules of sound energy, thirty-two orders of magnitude greater than 120 dB, or about 440 decibels.
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What does space smell like?

A succession of astronauts have described the smell as '… a rather pleasant metallic sensation ... [like] ... sweet-smelling welding fumes', 'burning metal', 'a distinct odour of ozone, an acrid smell', 'walnuts and brake pads', 'gunpowder' and even 'burnt almond cookie'.
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How cold is space?

According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Why is space dark?

Because space is a near-perfect vacuum — meaning it has exceedingly few particles — there's virtually nothing in the space between stars and planets to scatter light to our eyes. And with no light reaching the eyes, they see black.
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Is there sound on Mars?

They determined that sound travels 100 meters per second slower on Mars than on Earth. In addition, the researchers realized that there are two speeds of sound on Mars — one for high-pitched sounds and one for low-pitched sounds.
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Can we hear sound in space?

No, there isn't sound in space.

On Earth, sound mainly travels to your ears by way of vibrating air molecules, but in near-empty regions of space there are no (or very, very few) particles to vibrate – so no sound.
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Can life exist on the moon?

Today, the authors wrote, the moon is totally inhospitable to life. It has, they wrote, "no significant atmosphere, no liquid water on its surface, no magnetosphere to protect its surface from solar wind and cosmic radiation, no polymeric chemistry [the building blocks of life], and it is subject to large ...
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How loud is a whale?

Whales: 236 dB

The sound of a blue whale can, indeed, reach surprisingly high limits. Measurements have shown that the call of a blue whale can reach 188 dB. So, blue whales are definitely loud, louder than a jet engine.
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What does a nuke smell like?

Other bombs smell like the materials which cause the explosion, e.g., napalm smells like gasoline and tnt smells like gun powder.
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How many decibels is a human scream?

The average decibel level of human speech is estimated between 55 and 65 decibels. A whisper is considered the lowest decibel level of human speech. A whisper is between 20-30 dB. On the other hand, a human scream can reach decibel levels between 80 and 125 dB.
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