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Scientists have long known that the Sun’s surface rotates faster near the equator, where it rotates about once every 25 days, than it does near the poles, where it rotates about once every 33 days.

The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 ...