Over the past decade the TON team has set up four optical telescopes around the world, and in 1997 Professor Chou Dean-yi began using "acoustic imaging" software of his own design to analyze solar oscillations, allowing humans for the first time to "look inside" the sun in a way similar to an ultrasound scan.
一九九七年，計畫主持人、清大物理系教授周定一首先發明「聲波成像法」，用來解析太陽震波，讓人類第一次「看穿」太陽，為現代台灣天文科學寫下第一個世界第一。