(16.12.2016)

To figure out what was going on, the team looked at 3.5 years of data from NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, which has been observing the Sun since 2010.

Their data was taken from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, which looks at solar oscillations in the Sun‘s magnetic field.

They noticed that there had been a sharp slow-down in the Sun‘s rotation rate in its very outer 150 km layer, which they predict is due to something called the photon-braking effect.