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helioseismology
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helioseismology

Study of the Sun's structure by analysing vibrations and monitoring effects on the Sun's surface. Compare with seismology.
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In Sunquakes, Zirker charts the history and current course of this research--which is now coined helioseismology--and describes efforts to probe the interiors of stars far beyond our own.
Sunquakes: Probing the Interior of the Sun by Science News
USC uses it to study the sun's interior by measuring sunquakes, which are similar to earthquakes.
WILSON LOOKING FOR VISITORS OFFICIALS AT MOUNTAINTOP OBSERVATORY FRET ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
AN astonishing sunquake 40,000 times more powerful than the earthquake which devastated San Francisco in 1906 was revealed by scientists yesterday.
THE SUNQUAKE; It unleashes 250,000mph waves, two-miles high Produces ... by Radowitz, John von / The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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