Yup. It's basically as it's name suggests doing what seismologists do on earth with the surface of a star. Except that you can't set off an explosion on the star surface to see what happens, you have to wait for the star or a planet to do it for you.Mikey wrote:So, measuring starquakes, then, or tides in the star's surface?
Gravity sucks.
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Cool. Didn't realise we could do stuff like that.
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We couldn't until this year. It's taken 20 years to get the technology to the point it would work and to get the money to put the thing into orbit.
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Science rocks. 
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