January 5th, 2020 / 3:13 PM
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Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi shared a video on Twitter on January 4, Saturday, claiming that US space agency, NASA, has recorded the sound of the sun, which resembles ‘Om’. The video had over 72,000 views at the time of reporting and was re-shared as many as 1,600 times.
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— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi)January 4, 2020
This claim is absolutely false. A video on the Sun producing a sound was uploaded onNASA’s YouTube handleon July 25, 2018, but it never claimed that the sound is ‘Om’.
Check this out
By nasahttps://t.co/c8SoZ2bXwv
— Sri kanta Gowda (@SriKantaGowda07)January 4, 2020
ANASAreportreveals that a group of scientists from NASA and ESA (The European Space Agency) studied sun for more than 20 years in an attempt to document its movements and sounds.
According to the report, the sun produces a sound resembling a low, pulsing “heartbeat”. But nowhere in the report is it mentioned that the sound resembles that of Om.
The video released by Nasa says that the humming sound is produced because of the vibrations caused by activity inside the Sun. Scientists use these vibrations to look inside the Sun.
The Sun is not silent. The low, pulsing hum of our star’s heartbeat allows scientists to peer inside, revealing huge rivers of solar material flowing, along with waves, loops and eruptions. This helps scientists study what can’t be seen. Listen in:https://t.co/J4ZC3hUwtLpic.twitter.com/lw30NIEob2
— NASA (@NASA)July 25, 2018
Netizens were quick to point out that the claim is not true.
Fake, edited video. In original video, you can hear Jai Jagdish Hare after om. Please check WhatsApp again.https://t.co/9VCZcnX1F3
— Kamlesh K Singh (@kamleshksingh)January 4, 2020
Actor Kabir Bedi, who had re-tweeted the claim, later apologised for the mistake.
Apologies for the retweet re “sound the Sun”. It’s a fake https://t.co/Mw3yKPqStX
— KABIR BEDI (@iKabirBedi)January 4, 2020
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