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Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days


The surface of the Sun that we see is called the photosphere. The dark patches on the surface are called sunspots and are cooler than the rest of the surface.

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