Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions

Stars like our sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their rotation patterns as they age, with poles rotating faster than the equator in older stars. Scientists have now found that this switch may not occur. Stars maintain solar-type rotation, spinning fast at the equator and slow at the poles throughout their…

Solar Rotation Breakthrough: Slow Stars Still Spin Like the Sun

For nearly half a century, stellar physics has been shaped by a simple dividing line between two rotation patterns that control the movement of plasma inside sunlike stars. The first is the familiar solar pattern where the equator turns faster than the poles. The second is its opposite state where the poles move faster than […] The post Solar Rotation Breakthrough: Slow Stars Still Spin Like the Sun appeared first on Above The Norm News.