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Well, sunspots don't travel; they stay put, mostly, on the face of the Sun. At any rate, we really can't imagine any mechanism that would cause them to move....



So when we see sunspots apparently all moving together, it's a WHOLE lot more reasonable to assume that it's the Sun doing the moving, as in "spinning". This makes perfect sense, as everything in nature spins. And just about everything in this solar system is spinning in the same direction; as seen from high above the north pole, almost everything is spinning counter-clockwise. (Venus spins VERY slowly the other way, and the planet Neptune spins sideways. We don't know why.)


It makes sense that everything in this solar system spins the same way, because the cloud of gas and dust from which our solar system formed would have acquired some spin as it collapsed. It's logical to assume that we'll find a roughly equal number of solar systems where the spins are mostly clockwise and mostly counterclockwise.


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