Other Suns Got the Right Spin Potsdam, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2016 - Astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have for the first time measured the rotation periods of stars in a cluster nearly as old as the Sun and found them to be similar. It turns out that these stars spin around once in about 26 days - just like our Sun. This discovery significantly strengthens what is known a ... more

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