Solar rotation, a fundamental characteristic of the sun, is second in importance only to the Schwabe cycle, an approximately 11-year cycle. The energy and matter of the solar atmosphere originate from ...

In the early 2000s, a new set of data revised the chemical abundances at the surface of the sun, contradicting the values predicted by the standard models used by astrophysicists. Often challenged, ...

The sun : a slowly rotating star / J.-P. Zahn -- What is coming : issues raised from observation of the shape of the sun / J.-P. Rozelot -- Effects of rotation on stellar p-mode frequencies / M. J.

Strong magnetic fields keep the equator spinning faster than the poles and prevent a rotation flip, even as stars slow down with age Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most ...