Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1612, Galileo Galilei looked at the sun through a telescope, drew what he saw, and observed that sunspots — dark areas near the ...

The Sun is the closest star to Earth at a mere 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away. Despite the fact that you can feel its heat on your skin and its disk appears as large as the Full Moon ...

Scientists have worked out how fast our Sun spins compared to other similar stars, and found that it’s a bit of a slowcoach. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe ...

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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 ...

(Nanowerk News) My favourite science news is the stuff that changes the way I think about the world and our place in the universe. Many dinosaurs were covered in feathers; there’s a planet in the ...

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The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists describe as solar rotation co.

Stephen Serjeant receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Horizon 2020, and serves on several STFC committees. He is also a Council member of the Royal ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.