article_snippet: Stars generate sounds on Stars surface in an unexpected way, according to new experimental evidence.
article_snippet: A team of scientists that included York University found that, when material - dust or gas from nearby - falls onto a star, This process can produce an extremely high pitched sound in the plasma in the fluid.
article_snippet: ‘When plasma are accumulating new material, stars could generate sound in a very similar manner to that which we observed in the laboratory - so the stars might be singing - but, since sound cannot propagate through the vacuum of space, no-one can hear plasma,’ said Dr Pasley.
article_snippet: However, Dr Pasley noted that it would be difficult to directly observe this effect in stars, as the sound waves do not propagate into the space around the star.
highlights_snippet: However, as space is a vacuum, you wouldn't hear anything if nearby .