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Science 26 June 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5372, p. 2047
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5372.2047
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ASTRONOMY:
Seeking the Sun's Deepest Notes

Alexander Hellemans

The sun's oscillations carry clues to its interior, and astronomers have been watching them avidly with a network of telescopes called the Global Oscillation Network Group and a space-based observatory called SOHO (Science, 31 May 1996, p. 1264). But so far, the sun's deepest notes--slow pulsations that stir its very core--have eluded them. At a workshop early this month in Boston, researchers discussed new strategies for identifying these deep undulations and weighed one claim of a candidate detection.

Alexander Hellemans is a science writer in Naples.

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