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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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Yes, the sun rotates, but it does so a little differently than rocky planets like Earth. Learn how (and why) in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/does-sun-rotate.htm
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0:45.3 | Back in the 1600s, Astronomer Galileo Galilei peered into his telescope and discovered dark spots on the sun. |
0:53.4 | He subsequently noticed that they seemed to move, vanishing, and then returning. |
0:58.8 | He wrote in 1613, |
1:01.5 | It is also manifest that their rotation is about the sun. |
1:06.8 | And though he noted it was possible that the sunspots were moving while the sun stayed in place, |
1:12.1 | he continued, to me it seems more probable that the movement is of the solar globe than of its surroundings. |
1:20.6 | Galileo had discovered that the sun, like numerous other celestial objects, rotates on an axis. |
1:30.2 | But the length of time and manner in which the sun rotates is different than that of a rocky planet such as Earth. Moreover, that second |
1:36.4 | difference actually causes the sunspots that originally led to Galileo's discovery. |
1:42.7 | For the article this episode is based on, |
1:45.3 | How StuffWorks spoke with Claire Raptory, |
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