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No a sound wave can't travel through space because in space there is no air and sound waves need a medium to pass though. If you don't know what a medium is, it is something the waves or rays travel through. If you have ever watched a rocket blast off and you couldn't here the rocket make any noise once it left Earth that is why.
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∙ 13y agoNO ... Sound can't be heard in space. Sound needs air (oxygen) to travel across on in space there is none.
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An interesting question in that movies show us both noisy explosions and silent ones. The thought is that no medium ( no gases) means no noises. This works well for bells, screams of crew being eaten by space monsters and so on. However, the gases from an exploding spaceship may well travel at faster than sound velocities (just like bullets) creating a transient atmosphere for the slower sound waves to reach the listener.
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∙ 9y agoUnlike electromagnetic waves such as radio and television or light which can travel through the vacuum of space, sound waves travel by the compression and decompression of molecules in the medium through which they are passing. The medium must be compressible, whether it be gas, liquid or solid, and there are none of these in the vacuum of space.
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∙ 15y agoNo, outer space is a vacuum and sound waves require a medium (such as air, water, wood, metal etc) through which to propagate.
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∙ 9y agoSound waves can travel in outer space. However, sound waves don't travel from earth to outer space. The distance is just too far.
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What type of wave can't travel through space?
Sound waves cannot travel through space.
Why can radio waves travel through space but sound waves can not?
Radio waves travel through empty space because they are electromagnetic waves, whereas sound is a wave that must travel through air.
Can the sound of a wave travel through space?
Yes, sound travels through space when the space is filled with some medium such as air (or water or iron or cetera). Sound is vibrations in the medium which travel as a wave. If there is nothing in the medium, no sound travels through it. Outerspace is pretty empty. You won't hear anything if you're in outerspace (except sounds from inside your space suit/ship). P.S. Do you mean the sound of a wave (like splashing on rocks) or a sound wave?
What of these waves can NOT travel through the vacuum of space?
Any wave that depends on a physical medium, such as a water wave or a sound wave.
Why is visible light considered to be radiant energy and can travel through empty space but sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum?
Well light is an electromagnetic wave and it pushes itself through space ,but sound requires particles to travel through and if there are no particles for it to travel through you have no sound
What type of wave can't travel through space?
Sound waves cannot travel through space.
What is it that sound cannot travel through?
Sound can travel through any medium. If you remove the medium you would end up with a vacuum. It is in vacuums that sound cannot travel as it needs a medium to travel (it travels as a compression wave or shear wave). Space is almost a perfect vacuum so sound is unable to travel through space.
Why can radio waves travel through space but sound waves can not?
Radio waves travel through empty space because they are electromagnetic waves, whereas sound is a wave that must travel through air.
Why can't a sound wave travel from a satellite to earth?
A sound wave cannot travel through space because there is no air in space. Without a medium such as air, you can't hear sounds
Can the sound of a wave travel through space?
Yes, sound travels through space when the space is filled with some medium such as air (or water or iron or cetera). Sound is vibrations in the medium which travel as a wave. If there is nothing in the medium, no sound travels through it. Outerspace is pretty empty. You won't hear anything if you're in outerspace (except sounds from inside your space suit/ship). P.S. Do you mean the sound of a wave (like splashing on rocks) or a sound wave?
Why is visible light considered to be radiant energy and can travel through empty space but sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum?
Well light is an electromagnetic wave and it pushes itself through space ,but sound requires particles to travel through and if there are no particles for it to travel through you have no sound
What of these waves can NOT travel through the vacuum of space?
Any wave that depends on a physical medium, such as a water wave or a sound wave.
What wave cannot travel through empty space?
Any wave that requires a physical medium. Audio (sound pressure) waves, water waves, and "amber waves of grain" are all examples of waves that cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Why sound wave not travel in space?
Sound waves need to pass through a medium, ex. air water. there is no median in space
Why a sound wave can't travel from a satellite to earth?
A sound wave can not travel from a satellite to earth because there is not an atmosphere in space. The sound wave has no way off traveling through the air because there isn't any air.
What do Sound wave not travel?
Sound wave do not travel through vaccum as it need medium to travel.
Sound can travel through what?
nothingA sound wave is a mechanical wave that can travel through any gasses, liquids, or solids. sound waves can not travel in outer space because there is nothing for the wave to travel through.Sound is vibration. Thus, it travels through anything that has mass. While it can travel through the air, the travel time and the clarity get better and better as the object gets denser and denser. Seeing as space has no mass, sound cannot travel in space.
