We know that the Earth rotates around its axis, turning first to the Sun, and then from the Sun. This journey lasts a little over three hundred sixty five days.

Rotation of the sun

It seems to us that the Sun hangs motionless in space: a sparkling, immovable sphere surrounded by a retinue of planets. However, this is a false impression. The sun is constantly moving. Planets and their satellites have to work hard to keep up with the sun moving in space.

Interesting fact: If we could weigh the Sun on Earth, we would be convinced that its mass is 41000000000000000000000000 tons. The sun is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium.

First, the sun does rotate, just like the earth and other planets. Secondly, scientists believe that the sun pulsates, then increasing, then decreasing in size. And finally, the Sun moves in interstellar space, and the planets circle around it, like moths around a candle flame.

The sun rotates around its axis for the same reason as the planet. Together with the Earth and other planets, the Sun was born in a cloud of spinning interstellar gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago. The solar system was born in motion. However, the Sun is not a solid mass, as, for example, the Earth. This is a cloud of hot gas. Since the Sun has such a subtle organization, it does not behave like a rough, rigid planet.

The rotation of various parts of the sun

The period of gas circulation near the solar equator is about 25 days. The period of circulation of solar gases at the poles of the luminary is about 33 days. The earth, on the whole, revolves completely around its axis, making a complete revolution in 24 hours. The sun has a lot of secrets. The most intriguing of these is behavior beyond the hot solar core. The core, the solar core, scientists believe, rotates four times faster than the outer layers of the Sun.

Ripple of the Sun

The sun is expanding, contracting, the frequency of this process is five minutes. The impression is that our luminary breathes. No one knows why the sun is pulsating. There is an assumption that expansion and contraction is caused by the passage of sound waves through solar gases.

There may be another type of pulsation of the Sun. Scientists suggest that gravity makes the sun pulsate every half hour. Why? Dense gases from the region of the solar core propagate into the region of less dense gases in the surface layers of the Sun. At the same time, the star is expanding slightly. Then gravity returns these dense gases back to the center of our star. As a result, the sun shrinks again.