LISTEN: Sound of MILLION MILE wide space ‘tsunami’ recorded 13 BILLION MILES away

NASA’S Voyager 1 probe, which has left our solar system after travelling at 40,000mph for 38 years, has been rocked by no less than three inexplicable million-mile-wide tsunami waves in interstellar space.

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The tsunami wave sounds like a whale beneath the ocean

And NASA engineers have managed to create an audio file of this deep space turbulence – creating a mindlblowing recording of a colossal event 13 billion miles away. 

This third shock wave to be experienced by Voyager 1 has been reverberating across stellar space for more than year - the longest ever recorded. 

But this is the first time engineers have been able to ‘record’ the incredibly eerie sound, which is remarkably similar to whalesong. 

Scientists believe space tsunami wave occurs when the sun throws out a coronal mass ejection – a solar flare – the same phenomenon that creates the Northern Lights. 

A magnetic cloud of plasma from the sun’s surface to generate a wave of pressure millions of miles wide.

Voyager Experiences Three 'Tsunami Waves' in Interstellar Space

Ed Stone, project scientist for the Voyager mission, explained that when the wave hits interstellar space it produces a shock wave which "sings" or "vibrates like a bell." 

And it is this vibration which has been ‘recorded’. 

One of the earlier waves helped researchers determine the spacecraft had left the solar system and entered interstellar space, 

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched 38-years-ago by the American space agency.

The latest shock wave has catapulted Voyager 1 250 million miles further into outer space.

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