From sasha@khors.stanford.edu Fri Dec 20 12:27:49 1996 Return-Path: Received: from solar by quake.Stanford.EDU with SMTP (5.65/25-QUAKE-eef) id AA14976; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:27:47 -0800 Received: by solar.Stanford.EDU (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA06911; Fri, 20 Dec 96 20:30:21 GMT Received: (from sasha@localhost) by khors.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) id MAA14751; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:27:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Alexander Kosovichev" Message-Id: <9612201227.ZM14749@khors.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:27:44 -0800 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 26oct94 MediaMail) To: erhodes@solar.stanford.edu, jkuhn@solar.stanford.edu, margie@solar.stanford.edu, rock@quake.stanford.edu Subject: Los Angeles Times Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: R L.A. TIMES / SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT / SCIENCE / STORY Thursday, December 19, 1996 Science in Brief New Images Show Sun Is Covered by Wide Mountains of Hot Gases From Times Staff and Wire Reports NATION & WORLD The sun, that blazing sphere at the center of our solar system, is covered by mountains of STATE & hot gases that stretch as far as 40,000 miles at LOCAL their bases, according to new images. "The sun has mountains. These bumps are about five times SPORTS the diameter of Earth," Jeffrey R. Kuhn, a solar physicist from Michigan State University, told a BUSINESS & meeting of the American Geological Society in TECHNOLOGY San Francisco. However, the mountains are only about a third of a mile high, he said. LIFE & STYLE "We don't yet have a model that explains these hills," Kuhn said, although he suspects CALENDAR that they are caused by the interaction of boiling gas and the sun's powerful magnetic COMMENTARY field. WEEKLY SECTIONS Copyright Los Angeles Times