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| Leibacher, director of the NSO and an early practitioner of helioseismology The technique, says Leibacher, may help researchers probe smaller regions of the sun, perhaps illuminating the mysterious subsolarian processes that generate sunspots. Helioseismology -- observations of the way the sun's surface rises and falls in a pattern of oscillations -- provides one of the best checks on these nonstandard models by supplying information about the sun's internal structure, for example, how deep the sun's convective zone goes. The study of the inner sun, known, as helioseismology (SN: 7/2/88, p. |
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