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Sound needs matter to propagate. There's not much matter between us and the sun.

Even if there were matter enough, the sound wave is not unidirectional and spreads out. A lot of spreading can be achieved in a distance that takes light 8 minutes to traverse.

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Indeed, it would spread spherically. It's worth pointing out that although sound cannot reach us from the Sun, the electromagnetic radiation (heat, light, etc) that does reach us is subject to the same inverse-square spreading rule, rather neatly because despite the Sun's size, it is far enough away from us and anything else of significant obstruction to be treated as a spherical source in an infinite volume.

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