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The Earth rotates once in 24 hours, or one day. (The precise time of a single complete rotation is actually 23 hours 56 minutes.) The Sun is not a solid body, but a ball of fusing plasma; the equatorial regions of the Sun rotate in about 26 days, while the polar regions take about 33 days.

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