Diagram of Sun Layers (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Diagram of Sun Layers

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Scientists have used data from ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, to detect a type of wave called g-modes on the Sun. These g-modes reveal that the solar core is rotating about four times faster than the surface.

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