Scientists have long known that the Sun’s surface rotates faster near the equator, where it rotates about once every 25 days, than it does near the poles, where it rotates about once every 33 days.
Images of the sun over 10 years reveal how the star's activity spikes and dips over time. (Credit: The Yohkoh mission of ISAS, Japan, and NASA, United States) A team of solar scientists have uncovered ...
A team of scientists in the US says that the asteroid Vesta probably had a rotating liquid core in its early history. This, the researchers say, created a dynamo that produced a magnetic field strong ...