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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sun has an atmosphere so there are soundwaves coming out of it. It's actually all one big atmosphere getting thinner and thinner as you go out just like ours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That makes me wonder where the sun ends and it's atmosphere begins! Stars are weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Technically there is no boundary, it's atmosphere all the way in. But what we might call the "surface" is the photosphere. That is where the density becomes "low" (read not insanely high) enough that light can escape in a free path.