# Audible Sun

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audible-sun/498557>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audible-sun/498557 "2009-06-03T07:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audible-sun/498557/1 "2009-06-03T07:59:36Z")

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With all of the reactions, explosions and flares, the sun must be a noisy place.  
How close to the sun would one have to be in order to hear the sun?

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**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audible-sun/498557/2 "2009-06-03T08:05:23Z")

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Bearing in mind that sound doesn’t travel through a vacuum, I suspect your ears would be fried to a crisp long before you heard anything\*.

\*I’m assuming here that there’s some minor level of solar ejecta that could impact your ears directly, causing sound.