is planet sun stionary or rotating?

Answer 1

First of all, the sun is not a planet, it is a star.

And yes, it is rotating. It is also revolving around the center of the milky way galaxy.

Answer 2

Our Sun rotates but not like a planet. If you can imagine how our ocean tide move around the Earth. The entire Sun does not rotate the same way that the earth does, it is more like the gas belts of Jupiter and Saturn, the way that the northern latitude rotate differently than the southern ones.

So not only is the Sun surface rotating but it is also moving around the Milky Way galaxy once about every 225 million years.

We can further dive into this and say while it is moving around the galaxy it is also bobbing up and down on a 100 million year cycle. Kind of like a merry-go-round. Being that every 100 million years it has gone up and come back down.

The BBC did a DVD about 2 years ago called Hyperspace, narrated by Sam Neil. They did a real good job of describing the Sun and its internal workings. You can get it from Amazon for about 20 bucks.

Answer 3

The Sun is a star, not a planet. It rotates roughly once every 25 to 35 days, the equatorial regions rotating faster than the polar regions. This is easily shown by observing sunspots as they cross the face of the Sun, disappear around the limb, and then reappear a couple of weeks later at the opposite limb.

Answer 4

Does the Sun rotate? As the sun orbits around the milky way, does the sun rotate, i.e., does it spin? The Sun does indeed rotate. Galileo noted this nearly 400 years ago when he observed sunspots. As you can see from this animation, the apparent motion of the sunspots can be used to determine the rotation speed of the Sun. As it turns out, the Sun's rotation is quite different from that of most of the planets. A rigid body such as the Earth will clearly have a single rotation rate. But since the Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds. Near the Sun's equator, it completes one rotation every 27 Earth days. But near the poles, it's about 31 Earth days. This is called "differential rotation".

Answer 5

The sun is rotating but not all in the same direction.
The sun is rotating in many different directions and every 11 years the all of the suns rotations supposingly turn the oppisite direction until the next 11 years which concludes why some years the sun has more sun spot and sun explosions then others

Answer 6

The sun certainly does rotate, but in a very different way to the earth. This is because the sun is a superheated fluid.

The 'equator' of the sun actual rotates at a different speed to the poles, which generates all sorts of strange magnetic effects.

Answer 7

The sun is a star, not a plnet. "Planet Sun" does not exist.

It is rotating and moving through space as the galaxy itself rotates.

Answer 8

well the sun is not a planet and it rotates, it also revolved around the galaxy to, nothing in space is stationary.

Answer 9

the sun does rotate as all stars do

Answer 10

it appears to be stationary from planet earth but actually it revolves in the galaxy
it does not rotate.....or i guess even if it rotates, we cannot come 2 know it as it is a big sphere of fire