The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

The winter solstice, famously the shortest day of the year, is nearly three weeks behind us. So why has the sun been rising later than it did on Dec. 21? Like much of our day and night cycles, the ...

Since Pluto is located so far from the sun, it takes around 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun. Pluto's orbit around the sun is not only a very long journey, it's also elliptical, resembling a ...

The sun : a slowly rotating star / J.-P. Zahn -- What is coming : issues raised from observation of the shape of the sun / J.-P. Rozelot -- Effects of rotation on stellar p-mode frequencies / M. J.

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists ...