Sun's core rotates four times faster that its surface

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 11:53 in Astronomy & Space

The sun's core rotates nearly four times faster than the sun's surface, an international team of astronomers reports. The most likely explanation is that this core rotation is left over from the period when the sun formed, some 4.6 billion years ago.

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