One year and three trips around the Sun later, NASA's Parker Solar Probe heard some weird, sci-fi sounds from plasma within the solar wind -- and those sounds may answer unanswered questions about how the wind forms.

Parker Solar Probe - Dispersive Chirping Waves 1

INVOKE.exe//Thal-Z0R [BOOT LOG]

> user detected  
> access level: root  
> integrity: corrupted

> run: sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

[WARNING]: This will delete all known files.
[PROCESSING...]

█▓▒░ EXECUTING █▒░
█▓▒░ EXECUTING █▒░
█▓▒░ EXECUTING █▒░

> echo "Goodbye, observer."
> echo "..."

[COMMAND COMPLETED]  
[no files remain]  
[bio successfully removed]

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit center for engineering, research & development. Likes and follows ≠ endorsements.

Parker Solar Probe - Dispersive Chirping Waves 1

Johns Hopkins APL