My wife's been growin' these. Blow's my freakin mind:
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diptych? new term for me, I had to look up that word. thanks.
Both the above are examples of differential rotation. Layers of our sun also rotate differentially.
But it is really quite complicated on how this works on either scale (galaxy or a large storm system on our tiny planet).
You may have noticed that the content on this blog is rather old... I haven't been blogging here much lately as my music blog yvynyl has been a lot more fulfilling (not to mention popular).
When active, this is where I share stuff that I care about - music, film, travel, life in Philly - as well as sprinkling of other random ephemera.