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Sun's core rotates 4 times faster than its surface: Here's why it matters

To work out what's inside the sun, NASA team has also used seismology to look at waves in the sun

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Stephen Serjeant | The Conversation
My favourite science news is the stuff that changes the way I think about the world and our place in the universe. Many dinosaurs were covered in feathers; there’s a planet in the habitable zone around the nearest star in the night sky; the universe is expanding faster and faster but no one yet knows why.
Now there’s a genuinely awe-inspiring and amazing discovery that really has changed the way I think about our solar system. A team of astronomers have discovered that the core of our sun rotates about four times faster than the surface. It’s in

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