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Has SOHO ended a 30-year quest for solar ripples?

3 May 2007

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An artist's impression of SOHO

Credits: SMM (IAC)

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The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) may have glimpsed long-sought oscillations on the Sun’s surface.

The data will reveal details about the very core of our central star and it contains clues as to how the Sun formed, 4.6 billion years ago.

Credits: SMM (IAC)

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