Simulations suggest most stars rotate like the Sun
Loren I. Matilsky
Nature Astronomy, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02844-3 Since the time of Galileo, the Sun’s ‘differential rotation’, with a fast equator and slow poles, has been a longstanding mystery of solar physics. New supercomputer simulations suggest that most solar-type stars generally exhibit this type of differential rotation.