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The Sun does not rotate like a solid body and spins faster at the equator.

Why it is true

Being a ball of plasma, the Sun undergoes differential rotation, taking about twenty-five days to complete a rotation at the equator, but over thirty days near the poles.

Source: Astrophysics

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