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How long is a day on the sun? at first might seem like a stupid question.
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A day is how long it takes the sun to come back overhead.
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Doesn’t happen on the sun, unless you’re standing upside down, in which case days on
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the sun are infinitesimally short and your hair is on fire.
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But maybe a day is how long it takes to spin around relative to the distant stars, in which
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case different parts of the sun have different days because it’s a big ball of flowing,
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gassy plasma and different parts rotate at different rates: relative to distant stars,
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the sun’s equator rotates once every 24 and a half earth days, while near the poles
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it rotates roughly every 34 earth days.
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Or maybe a day is simply eighty six thousand and four hundred seconds, in which case a
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day on the sun is slightly longer than a day on the earth due to gravitational time dilation.
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Or maybe a day is the time a human can survive without breathing, times 360, in which case
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a day on the sun is… definitely your last.