Astronomers say they have solved the mystery of why supergranules–enormous cells of turbulent, charged gas that pepper the sun’s visible surface–appear to move across the sun faster than the sun rotates.
DOING THE WAVE. Supergranules pepper the solar surface. As these enormous cells of gas bob up and down, they exhibit a wavelike pattern.
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