I apologize profusely for the title.

“Helioseismology is the study of the interior of the Sun from observations of the vibrations of its surface.”

DUDE.

Acoustic energy is used to “see into” the sun in a way similar to using ultrasound to see into the human body. The sun’s oscillations, first captured in the 1960s, have been used to try and understand the composition and dynamics of our star. According to here (which is an excellent cite full of info regarding this), “helioseismology is rather like trying to understand how a piano is built from the sounds that it makes when you drop it down a flight of stairs.”

Gotta love science.

And Berkeley’s Statistics program.

Today’s song: Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano