Helio- and Asteroseismology




There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
(Shakespeare, W. : Merchant of Venice, V.i.60 (Alexander text))





On the surface of the Sun there is already more going on than meets the eye....

An image in X-rays of the Sun taken on Jun 20th 1997, by the Yohkoh satellite.























A color-enhanced H-alpha image (16:17 UT/03 Oct. 96) of a solar prominence at the limb of the Sun, from the Big Bear Solar Observatory.

























..but there is a treasure of science in the interior !




These pages are based on multimedia material on helio- and asteroseismology prepared for a public outreach CD-ROM on research projects at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy, of Aarhus University.

Comments to the authors are most welcome.

Last updated 21 June 1997 by Frank P. Pijpers