Sound Science: Audifying the Sun

Audification transforms data directly into sound, enabling the human auditory system to detect patterns that visual analysis overlooks. This article traces two decades of applying audification to NASA heliophysics data: from discovering a better thermometer for the Sun's corona by listening to the solar wind, to controlled studies where trained ears caught four times more anomalies than trained eyes, to projects where thousands of volunteer listeners discovered things no one expected. The silent age of space exploration is ending.