Sun’s rotation driven by enormous plasma flows
Observations of giant structures support long-theorized heat transport mechanism
BIG SOLAR CELLS Giant, long-lived convective structures (left) move plasma on the sun’s surface. Earlier observations found only much smaller plasma flows covering the sun (right). In these illustrations, blue indicates plasma flowing east to west; red indicates west to east.
Courtesy of D. Hathaway/NASA
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