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The sun's rotation is unlike Earth's and has different periods of rotation at different parts of its body. This is called differential rotation.

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The sun isn't a solid planet

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True. Unlike Earth and other solid objects, the entire Sun doesn't rotate at the same rate. Because the Sun is not solid, but is instead a giant ball of gas and plasma, different parts of the Sun spin at different rates.
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