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How A Solar Storm Sounds

The powerful waves of high-energy particles that are released from the sun during solar storms can wreak havoc on near-Earth communications. But their bombardment can also be converted into digital music, as this video out of the University of Michigan demonstrates.

Previously: NASA’s SOHO satellite gets overrun by a solar storm, GIF looks like a snow globe.

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    More like space ghosts. ;_____;
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    sooo cool!
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    No particles were harmed during the making of this video.
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    Have you heard that latest track by the Sun?
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