The sun's counterclockwise rotation and the counterclockwise rotation of the entire solar system (except two planets) is a result of its formation around 4.5 billion years ago.

Our early Sun’s rate of rotation may be one reason we’re here to talk about it, astrobiologists now say. The key likely lies in the fact that between the first hundred million to the first ...

An artist's impression of V889 Herculis' rotation. Using a pioneering technique, researchers from the University of Helsinki found that the star rotates fastest at a latitude of around 40 degrees ...

Solar rotation rates. Credit: NASA Most Astronomy 101 courses continually pound the idea that our own star is almost boringly average. After all, it’s only one of billions of G-spectral type ...

NASA is allowing you to engage in an extended gazing session at our planet's star this week with the release of a new video that reveals the sun -- rotation, solar flares and all -- in ...

Long-lasting plasma flows 15 times the diameter of Earth transport heat from the sun’s depths to its surface, helping explain solar rotation.

The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...

Kuhn’s team calculates that over that time it would cause a slowdown of about 3 per cent in the rotation of the outermost 100 kilometres of the sun – about 0.01 per cent of its radius – and ...