Our motion around the sun is only one revolution per year, so that doesn't show much change on a daily basis. The rotation of the sun brings new details into view. The speed of rotation varies with position on the sun - things at the sun's equator go around once every 25 days, but it's only spinning once every 36 days at its poles.
Some features on the sun, solar flares for example, come and go in a few hours or less, but sunspots tend to persist for many days, long enough so you can watch them as the sun's rotation caries them around.
2006-11-18 07:37:45
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answer #1
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answered by injanier 7
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There are I think three components to this question that we must consider--1]. Planet Earth goes round the Sun in its orbit and completes in a sidereal year. So we see a little different Sun every day.--2]. The Sun itself is rotating about its axis. In fact this rotation is more important and enables us to see a different sun every day as compared to reason at 1] above--3] We all know Sun is a gaseous mass. There are Nuclear fission reactions inside at the core. This causes the temperature to rise to millions of degrees and there is great deal of expansion. When gases expand there is a random process and we can not hope to see the same state if we look at one point. More than expansion we have enormous gravity of Sun that is forcing the gases to contract. There are also solar flares we observe on Sun which are not fully understood.
As can be seen the face of Sun we see through Earth's sojourn around Sun is quite complex and not at its face value!
2006-11-18 14:19:04
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answered by openpsychy 6
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Well it takes a year to go all the way around the sun, so it wouldn't be everyday. And the surface of the sun is an ever changing mass. So you wouldn't even see the exact same thing if you checked 5 minutes.
2006-11-18 13:32:15
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answered by Mr. Right 4
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The back side of the Sun is the Moon. Where did you go to school? Everybody knows that the moon is the back side of the Sun. When you see the moon during the day, you are actually seeing a double reflection of the back side of the Sun (the Moon) which is reflected off the interior surface of the "Firmament" (Where God keeps the water he used for Noah's flood) it is then re-reflected to the opposite interior side of the Firmament where it appears normal in the sky. I hope this explains it for you.
2006-11-18 19:46:25
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answered by iknowtruthismine 7
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The Sun spins on it's axis like all of the planets in the solar system do. So we are actually seeing all sides of the sun but since you cannot stare at the Sun it is hard to tell that it is actually spinning.
2006-11-18 13:41:18
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answered by Anonymous
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The sun doesn't shine, it explodes.
We all know that no two snowflakes are identical.
Just the same as no two times that we look at the sun are identical.
To my knowledge, I believe it is not possible to have two identical explosions, now multiply that chance of having two identical explosions by the number of explosions on the side of the sun when we look at it. Now the sun spins, we orbit the sun, and we spin on our axis.
Now what are the odds of seeing the same side of the sun everyday, taking all of that into consideration.?
Not a lot.
Take care.
2006-11-18 13:49:36
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answered by Pray 2
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Yes, a little bit different, but the Sun rotates much faster, which makes much more of a difference in which side we see.
2006-11-18 13:39:18
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answered by eri 7
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since all celestial bodies are revolving on their axes we definitely see a different side of the sun though the earth is rotating on its axis.
2006-11-18 13:59:50
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answered by Aravind K 2
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Yes we do, but more because the sun rotates on its axis about once a month.
2006-11-18 13:32:05
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answered by Roman Soldier 5
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I don't look at the sun, it hurts my eyes. But yeah, the sun rotates. Why wouldn't it?
2006-11-18 14:21:23
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answer #10
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answered by Dr Know It All 5
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