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How does the rate of motion of Earth compare to the sun's rate?

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  1. The Sun, like most other astronomical objects (planets, asteroids, galaxies, etc.), rotates on its axis.
  2. Unlike Earth and other solid objects, the entire Sun doesn't rotate at the same rate. Because the Sun is not solid,
  3. but is instead a giant ball of gas and plasma, different parts of the Sun spin at different rates.
  4. We can tell how quickly the surface of the Sun is rotating by observing the motion of structures, such as sunspots, on the Sun's visible surface.
  5. The regions of the Sun near its equator rotate once every 25 days.
  6. The Sun's rotation rate decreases with increasing latitude, so that its rotation rate is slowest near its poles.
  7. At its poles the Sun rotates once every 36 days!
  8. The interior of the Sun does not spin the same way as does its surface.
  9. Scientists believe that the inner regions of the Sun, including the Sun's core and radiative zone, do rotate more like a solid body.
  10. The outer parts of the Sun, from the convective zone outward, rotate at different rates that vary with latitude.
  11. The boundary between the inner parts of the Sun that spin together as a whole and the outer parts that spin at different rates is called the "tachocline".
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