The sun's differential rotation pattern has puzzled scientists for decades: While the poles rotate with a period of approximately 34 days, mid-latitudes rotate faster and the equatorial region ...

As the team reports today in the journal Science Advances, the long-period solar oscillations discovered by MPS scientists in 2021 play a crucial role in controlling the Sun’s rotational pattern.

The period of rotation near its equator is 26.5 days, at sun spot zone (16 degrees north) it is 27.3 days, and at the pole it is 31.1 days. The Sun’s enormous core temperature of 15 million ...

SINCE the introduction of the Doppler-Fizeau principle one of its most interesting and. important applications has been to the determination of the velocity of the sun's rotation by the ...

Until now, the sun has been the only star for which it has been possible to extract a rotational profile, given the distance of other stars. In their study, however, Tuomi and colleagues were able ...

The sun has an average rotation period of 27 days, providing Earth with a view of a given active region for around two weeks before it rotates over the sun's western edge.

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 ...