Other suns got the right spin
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 08:20
in Astronomy & Space
Astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have for the first time measured the rotation periods of stars in a cluster nearly as old as the sun and found them to be similar. It turns out that these stars spin around once in about twenty-six days – just like our sun. This discovery significantly strengthens what is known as the solar-stellar connection, a fundamental principle that guides much of modern solar and stellar astrophysics.