My mother told me that when she was visiting Alaska, she saw the Aurora Borealis, and she told me it also made a sound, kind of tinkly, like wind chimes. This short video is only the 2nd time in my 70 years that I've heard about the sound of the northern lights. Thank you, Neil!!!
My father told me when I was a little girl that he heard the sound of the northern lights when he was little. His teacher said he was lying, well I guess he's proven right. He was born in 1937 so he heard it a long time ago
I had an amazing experience with the lights while in N.Canada around 20yrs ago with friends. It started as just a bright point of white light seemingly perfectly overhead of us. The light then started spreading out in 2 directions as it shifted colour to pine & lime greens, and the individual streams branched into more and more streams & colours. Finally, the entire night sky was practically all aurora after only about 15minutes, and just filled with the most amazing colour and intensity changes.
@@crazyforflowers7478 only about 45mins, until it moved mostly to the horizon and dimmed. I’m always amazed at how fast they seemingly move, and quite understanding to the peoples who believed it was a thing that lived in the sky.
Turn it up and put ur ear up to speaker on your phone. Starts out whispering n then can absolutely hear more than 1 voice talking, especially towards the end. Atleast it does to me. 😯🧐🤔😜
UIOWA has some amazing VLF recordings of auroral phenomena, both terrestrial and Jovian! (Jupiter) Some citizen scientists who record and process this also sometimes call it "Natural Radio". Shortwave radios will sometimes accidentally capture pieces of auroral chorus or chirps. I've found this can happen when I am tuning a SW radio using a potentiometer dial rather than digital and listening between stations when the solar wind is super active. Music to my ears!!
@@philhoward4466 no. They're not. That's why religion doesn't like scientific advances. Bruh. Come on. The quote I think you're trying to reference was made by a futurist, "Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to those unfamiliar."
Thank you for takiing the time to explain the reason of the visibility of aurora borealis. I enjoy easing ignorance of the things that sorround us. One day when I buy my fantastic Smith Casagrin telescope I will strive to be an anorak of astrophotography, which is a good thing. 🔭 Buy the way Happy Birthday! 🎂
I believe that audio has been utilized as a sound effect in several sci-fi movies. Or similar version has been composed by foley artists. Either way with audio of the phenomenon, we as air breathing beings feel more connected to the energized particles sweeping across the globe.
@@abstract5249 they don't mention it in their heads, but in their ears. The say they actually hear it. So I'm pretty sure that's not imagination. Unless is group hallucinations on a massive cross-cultural scale. Which has a very low probability. Lower than the probability that people who haven't been around highways and airplanes their whole life being able to hear things that those who have can not.
@@abstract5249 we're talking about Alaskan, Canadian, Siberian etc tribes....not just one little valley somewhere by itself. Probability lends them some credit. And leans away from it being "imagination".
Hmmm ! ! ! It seems I can remember ages ago on old 'Tube Type Radios', on rare occasions, hearing sounds like that. Could that be correct? Or might I have been hearing a 'chromatic' sound from the Aurora Borealis??? 🤔 🤨 😵💫 🤓
Thank You for explaining to me HOW the Aurora made that noise…I can now understand that the slowing of those molecules by the atmosphere makes the “Hillbilly Saw” sound….it’s like playing a 45 on 33…..
I've seen and heard aurora borealis in northern Sweden and you can absolutely hear them, at least some times. But from my experience its much more of a crackling sound rather than what's shown here. Sounds kinda like you are wearing headphones that's getting a lot of static interference
As a Californian, I have heard earthquakes before. But! They’ve always sounded more like jackhammers than the sounds in the video. Jackhammers that sound like they’re being used right next to you but still. Just my experience.
Not at all. Its a pulse every 5 seconds. Its inaudible. The Sounds you hear at the end of the video is it being greatly sped up maybe 20,000 to 50,000 times faster.
I would like to argue that the light is emitted upon excitement and not "deexcite" ment. If you drill down into the quantum mechanics of it the electron is moved to higher energy levels when first ionizing energy is applied. So as soon as the atom gains in entropy it collides with all other atoms, creating a electro magnetic wave, light. As a consequence of this in an after effect the electron falls in DE excitement. The frequency of this happening creates it's spectra. Pretty sure anyway.
There ARE some people who CAN actually hear these, though - and I'm one of them. When I was 17, I had severe strep throat. It was so bad that the infection traveled into my eustacian(sp?) tube of my right ear and actually damaged my cochlea, causing me to go app. 70% deaf in that ear. However, the changes caused by the damage to my inner ear enabled me to suddenly be able to hear very low-pitched frequencies. (Kind of like the reverse of, let's say, a dog being able to hear frequencies above the "normal" ability of humans.) I absolutely love hearing recordings of elephant vocalizations, whale songs, etc.! So, yes, the AB's "sing" for me. What do they sound like? Like quavering, crystalline cathedral chimes mixed with an undertone that sounds quite like the beating "woosh!" similar to a Doppler ultrasound of the abdomen of a pregnant woman .
Happy 64th Birth Anniversary Dr. Neil Tyson, Looking back in retrospect, You've taught many to scientifically reason, by training them to introspect. During your 64 orbits around the Sun, You've earned immense respect. Thanks for being the person, Who apprises that science is always correct. 🙂🙌 Thank you, Dr. Neil Tyson, for having a huge impact on my life.
It sounds a lot like the low quality videos you sometimes come across on RUclips. Mainly the videos that are short clips of old movies or television shows. I’ve also noticed a similar sound occasionally when I talk to someone on my cellphone. Hmm…🤔 I’m curious to know if all waves can do this as well, if we were able to manipulate them that is.
Why are people thinking the high pitched sparkly sound is what they sound like? No, it's super low frequency our ears can't detect. You have never heard it. The sparkly sound at the end is it sped up by about 20,000 to 50,000 times.
My mother told me that when she was visiting Alaska, she saw the Aurora Borealis, and she told me it also made a sound, kind of tinkly, like wind chimes. This short video is only the 2nd time in my 70 years that I've heard about the sound of the northern lights. Thank you, Neil!!!
My father told me when I was a little girl that he heard the sound of the northern lights when he was little. His teacher said he was lying, well I guess he's proven right. He was born in 1937 so he heard it a long time ago
@@Corn0nTheCobbThe Alaskan wilderness is a very remote place. There’s multiple reports of people hearing a faint noise with the northern lights
If I was going to choose a soundtrack for alien communication, that would be it...freaky...
The sparkly sound at the end is an artist rendition. They basically sped up the sound many thousands of times.
That’s what I was thinking.
I was thinking that same thought lol...
Crystallized sound ✨
“A hee a hee uh heee!” Ow wait that’s a Fox.
Listen to Frozen Sound by Joe Ford (:
I cannot believe how perfectly the sound matches it- It's so 🌌 sparkley 🌌.
(🎉 P.s Happy birthday to Neil 🎂)
I had an amazing experience with the lights while in N.Canada around 20yrs ago with friends.
It started as just a bright point of white light seemingly perfectly overhead of us. The light then started spreading out in 2 directions as it shifted colour to pine & lime greens, and the individual streams branched into more and more streams & colours. Finally, the entire night sky was practically all aurora after only about 15minutes, and just filled with the most amazing colour and intensity changes.
and you weren't smoking anything?
@@raynic1173 nah, but that would have made it an epic memory. Lol
@@GoatPopsicle how long through the night did it last?
@@crazyforflowers7478 only about 45mins, until it moved mostly to the horizon and dimmed. I’m always amazed at how fast they seemingly move, and quite understanding to the peoples who believed it was a thing that lived in the sky.
I saw them in the Seattle area August 12th, 2000, at 1 in the morning. It wasva brilliant green fog that shot white beams to the center of the sky.
It kinda sounds like they are having a conversation! Can anyone else hear that?
I could swear I heard someone talking.
Turn it up and put ur ear up to speaker on your phone. Starts out whispering n then can absolutely hear more than 1 voice talking, especially towards the end. Atleast it does to me. 😯🧐🤔😜
Wow. Sounds almost what i expected it to sound. Like dancing crystals from space.
Except thats not the actual sound. Your hearing it sped up many thousands of times.
@@JasonWW2000it’s a dumb video lol
@@chexcollects To some people, sure.
Very timely as my wife and I will be cruising Norway starting this weekend. Hopefully the weather and solar wind cooperate!
I hope you get to see them
Enjoy
How was it?
Literally fairy dust in the atmosphere
Literally photons bud.
@@ninefingerjack it is a joke lol but yes
@@idoit319 a joke follows the language it uses. The word "literally" means....
UIOWA has some amazing VLF recordings of auroral phenomena, both terrestrial and Jovian! (Jupiter) Some citizen scientists who record and process this also sometimes call it "Natural Radio". Shortwave radios will sometimes accidentally capture pieces of auroral chorus or chirps. I've found this can happen when I am tuning a SW radio using a potentiometer dial rather than digital and listening between stations when the solar wind is super active. Music to my ears!!
Truly magnificent!
Like a huge murmeration of starlings coming in to land at evening...but at low frequencies..😎👍
I love how much these videos make me think
Imagine you're an animal that hears these frequencies. You'd get crazy and move to tropics
WoW! Now this AURORA sound is going to be my phone's notification sound 😎
They sound like a mix between science and magic
I’d say that’s pretty fitting for the lights!
science and magic are just the same thing.
@@philhoward4466 no. They're not. That's why religion doesn't like scientific advances.
Bruh. Come on.
The quote I think you're trying to reference was made by a futurist, "Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to those unfamiliar."
@@philhoward4466 true, science can be pretty magical
@@ninefingerjack please explain or show us real fantasy magic.
@@ixinor point being there is none champ.
Like crystals and sky daddy, all make believe.
Try to keep up.
Oh god I'm not exactly gnostic but seriously there is something there that made this beautiful creation
That sounds pretty good actually I would love to see the Auroras either northern or southern
Me, too!!!
@@caroljo420 good luck seeing them if you do tell us if it's worth it
sounds like something communicating at a higher frequency... not lower...
They sound alive.
Ahh the sound that reminds me of turning the radio dial.
Charged particles give me a hadron
Sounds almost like cristal chitchatting
Here in Maine on October 10th we had an insane Aurora experience and many of us heard them. Like a chirping sort of whistle
Absolutely the most breathtaking & amazing thing ever!!!!! 😲🔭🌍☄️☀️🪐🌠🌕🌌
How can you not Love Neil??? He’s the best! Brilliant mind who can make anything interesting, funny and knowledgeable.
Kinda like a million birds
It Sounds Like a Wizard summoning a litteral Ice hurricane
I've seen the Aurora Borealis it was like a rainbow🌈 with a jazz beat
Thank you for takiing the time to explain the reason of the visibility of aurora borealis. I enjoy easing ignorance of the things that sorround us. One day when I buy my fantastic Smith Casagrin telescope I will strive to be an anorak of astrophotography, which is a good thing. 🔭
Buy the way Happy Birthday! 🎂
sparky and electric! fitting
WAIT! WAITAMINUTE...HOLD IT..
WHAT BACTERIA!!! LIVES..
UNDER!! THAT GREEN. SLIME..
VAPOR???
🖖😎❤️❤️❤️❤️
I believe that audio has been utilized as a sound effect in several sci-fi movies. Or similar version has been composed by foley artists. Either way with audio of the phenomenon, we as air breathing beings feel more connected to the energized particles sweeping across the globe.
That's so cool, it sounds like the high end of the AM radio band. Like as if I can almost make out the words, but I can't
When I lived in Northern Alberta we saw the Aurora most nights during the summer. Some nights it made a crackling sound.
Silly Question: How are we hearing them on this recording since they are below our hearing range? 🤷♂️
Ecstasy ecstatic 🤩♥️♥️♥️😃nothing but ♥️just pure ♥️😂GOD!!! Creation Genesis 🧬🧬🧬
That’s what dem ther aliens sound like TER!
They sound strangely like someone is cooking *steamed hams*
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
@@cloverisfan818 Yes!
Gives me more respect for the pokemon, Deoxys, and the sounds that have been played alongside Deoxys in the games and anime.
Nature is genuinely amazing
Nature truly is beautiful.
Inuit and other Arctic tribes describe "the spirits singing and talking" with the aurora. So maybe some people can hear it.
No, it's 0.2Hz. No one can hear it. Your more likely to feel it than hear it, but I doubt its spl level is high enough for humans to feel it.
Fascinating how humans imagined a visual phenomenon as "singing." That takes great imagination especially before modern technology.
@@abstract5249 they don't mention it in their heads, but in their ears. The say they actually hear it. So I'm pretty sure that's not imagination. Unless is group hallucinations on a massive cross-cultural scale. Which has a very low probability. Lower than the probability that people who haven't been around highways and airplanes their whole life being able to hear things that those who have can not.
@@abstract5249 we're talking about Alaskan, Canadian, Siberian etc tribes....not just one little valley somewhere by itself. Probability lends them some credit. And leans away from it being "imagination".
@@TrueDrue I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying they can actually hear the auroras?
I'm glad I can't hear it! But, I guess if I can get used to hearing the freeway all night long....
No one can hear it. It's 0.2Hz.
@@JasonWW2000 exactly, and I'm glad about it!
WICKED! I wonder if any animals can hear this?
Hmmm ! ! !
It seems I can remember ages ago on old 'Tube Type Radios', on rare occasions, hearing sounds like that. Could that be correct? Or might I have been hearing a 'chromatic' sound from the Aurora Borealis??? 🤔 🤨 😵💫 🤓
exactly. it sounds like something searching for a station
Thank You for explaining to me HOW the Aurora made that noise…I can now understand that the slowing of those molecules by the atmosphere makes the “Hillbilly Saw” sound….it’s like playing a 45 on 33…..
The sound it makes is inaudible.
I've seen and heard aurora borealis in northern Sweden and you can absolutely hear them, at least some times. But from my experience its much more of a crackling sound rather than what's shown here. Sounds kinda like you are wearing headphones that's getting a lot of static interference
Definitely sounds like it inspired sci-fi sound effects!
sounds like pretty crystals on a chalkboard
I saw northern lights in east, west Greenland last year. Such a beauty
As a Californian, I have heard earthquakes before. But! They’ve always sounded more like jackhammers than the sounds in the video. Jackhammers that sound like they’re being used right next to you but still. Just my experience.
"Too low for human ear to hear"... "here's how it sounds like"
*Logic has left the chat*
I was just about to comment that. The sound has gotta be pitched up or replicated in some way; it’d be nice for them to mention what they did
What if it's alien communications that we haven't deciphered yet
Not at all. Its a pulse every 5 seconds. Its inaudible. The Sounds you hear at the end of the video is it being greatly sped up maybe 20,000 to 50,000 times faster.
Earth is digitally talking to u MAAAAN gnarly
My cat heard this and took off out of the room with the quickness.
This phenomenon is that the Fallen is here.
This is an Aurora.
It has much aura
The view..beautiful!
Always amazed by the things in nature that we learn new things about everyday
Thanks Neil.
I would like to argue that the light is emitted upon excitement and not "deexcite" ment. If you drill down into the quantum mechanics of it the electron is moved to higher energy levels when first ionizing energy is applied. So as soon as the atom gains in entropy it collides with all other atoms, creating a electro magnetic wave, light. As a consequence of this in an after effect the electron falls in DE excitement. The frequency of this happening creates it's spectra. Pretty sure anyway.
truly incredible, the universe is such a interesting place
There ARE some people who CAN actually hear these, though - and I'm one of them.
When I was 17, I had severe strep throat. It was so bad that the infection traveled into my eustacian(sp?) tube of my right ear and actually damaged my cochlea, causing me to go app. 70% deaf in that ear.
However, the changes caused by the damage to my inner ear enabled me to suddenly be able to hear very low-pitched frequencies. (Kind of like the reverse of, let's say, a dog being able to hear frequencies above the "normal" ability of humans.)
I absolutely love hearing recordings of elephant vocalizations, whale songs, etc.!
So, yes, the AB's "sing" for me. What do they sound like? Like quavering, crystalline cathedral chimes mixed with an undertone that sounds quite like the beating "woosh!" similar to a Doppler ultrasound of the abdomen of a pregnant woman .
😮FREQUENCY! Sounds like something is sending a message.
Sounds like tuning an old shortwave radio.
Yeah it's definitely aliens talking to us.
More we want more info about the Aurora Borealis please 🙏
thats a freshly paved rainbow road 😂
It’s the radio intro music lol. All it’s missing is a tagline
Thats beautiful
Sounds like birds and kids talking/ playing
Enter activity and communication of rising souls... ✨️
So, the coolest sound ever?
Ghostbusters Proton-Pack meets a Transformer. Got it.
Gorgeous 🥰
kinda sounds like that sci-fi sounds during the genesis sales pitch in the wrath of Kahn.
Happy 64th Birth Anniversary Dr. Neil Tyson,
Looking back in retrospect,
You've taught many to scientifically reason,
by training them to introspect.
During your 64 orbits around the Sun,
You've earned immense respect.
Thanks for being the person,
Who apprises that science is always correct.
🙂🙌
Thank you, Dr. Neil Tyson, for having a huge impact on my life.
I can hear the excitement
I flew from Chicago to Frankfurt and was able to take pictures of some from my seat
It sounds like there's a space war.
It sounds a lot like the low quality videos you sometimes come across on RUclips. Mainly the videos that are short clips of old movies or television shows.
I’ve also noticed a similar sound occasionally when I talk to someone on my cellphone.
Hmm…🤔 I’m curious to know if all waves can do this as well, if we were able to manipulate them that is.
Before time began, there was, the CUBE.
The sound is reminiscent of birds
Oh, Thank you, I always wondered if there was any sound.
sounds like a decepticon radio signal. maybe we should be worried guys
"You have exited the molecule"
Lols when they see it 😎 Ain't it just ain't it....Them Charge particles can visualize.... We don't have a chance...
Wow that sounds so cool
This is creepy and also beautiful
Love this!! How did you learn this Neil?
That is incredible😮
I remember seeing that in someone's kitchen when they were making steamed hams
I’ll dance to this sound 🕺
More videos🎥🎥🎥🎥
Neil and Chuck for 2024
need a Pokémon cry based on this
The voices of Eros!
Happy birthday 🎉🎉🎉
That is the sound of the space station going through the Aurora. If it has a resonant frequency of 0.5hz it is too low a frequency to hear.
Ish
I came here looking for the The Long Dark videogame sound when auroras occur :(
That one is far more creepy
Why are people thinking the high pitched sparkly sound is what they sound like? No, it's super low frequency our ears can't detect. You have never heard it. The sparkly sound at the end is it sped up by about 20,000 to 50,000 times.