Saturday, February 11, 2017

Photons are a drag on the Sun

Slowing down: the Sun as seen by the SDO
Sunlight is slowing the rotation of the Sun’s outermost layers by stealing its angular momentum. That is the claim of researchers in the US and Brazil who have studied acoustic waves oscillating through the Sun’s visible surface – the photosphere – to...

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