Like the majority of the solar system's planets, this rotation is counter-clockwise, but as well as being significantly slower than Earth's rotation, the sun's rotation is much more complex.

The reason is that the cloud of dust that formed our solar system started off with a slight rotation. Why does that matter? In order to answer that, we have to think about what happens when an ...

Because of its speedy rotation around the sun ... ve found the ancient neutron star crash that showered our solar system in gold. Live Science. Specktor, B. (2018, October 1) Pluto should be ...

If you could go back 4.6 billion years, you would see a time before our solar system even existed ... retrograde orbits—opposite of the sun’s rotation—because their relatively small masses ...

They found that the rotation of these dark regions, called sunspots, played a role in a massive solar flare that erupted from the sun in February. "Sunspots are features where the magnetic field ...