then the convection zone, followed by the chromosphere and its corona. But the Sun doesn't really end there. The Sun holds onto its atmosphere, just like the Earth, and it's a whopper.

Beneath the surface is the sun’s convection zone, in which dense plasma swirls around, rather like the magma in Earth’s mantle. This phenomenon makes the sun’s surface look grainy ...

The differential rotation seems to be reined in by long-period oscillations of sound waves in the convection zone that can be ...