stackyFACTSBecause the sun is a chaotic ball of plasma instead of a solid rock, it spins completely out of sync with itself. Its equator rotates once every twenty-four days, while its poles drag their feet and take up to thirty-five days, creating a tangled, messy magnetic field in the process.
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