What Does a Solar Flare Sound Like?

This:
Sound of the Sun (courtesy Richard Morton) by University of Sheffield
It turns out that the corona of the sun contains giant magnetic loops that vibrate much like a guitar string or a woodwind reed. And Sheffield University's joyously named Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen has created software to convert those vibrations into music.
Thanks so much to Shaker NapalmNacey for passing that along.
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