Sun's core in a real spin, but you wouldn't know just by looking at it Our Sun's core is rotating four times faster than its surface. That's the conclusion boffins have reached after peering at data from the joint NASA-ESA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) mission, first launched in 1995 and still turning in the science. What SOHO found is something solar scientists have been trying to …
Where you can view the atmosphere as composed of great "mountains" of air forming over individual local peaks in the local gravitational field.
Excellent work, which should refine the models of star formation, and our stars long term stability.
Could see it this evening just East of the Golden Gate Bridge ... The inversion layer was lifted over Angel Island, you could see a "bump" in the fog over the island when flying overhead. (The sea fog was only a couple hundred feet thick near sunset.)
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