Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?
To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel with the instruments aboard the JUICE spacecraft on its journey there.
Here's a hands-on experiment that explains how the gas giant's cloud swirls are formed.
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Solar Cycle Variations in Meridional Flows and Rotational Shear within the Sun's Near-surface Shear Layer: #solar rotation: https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00101-6 - scientists uncover how deep plasma flows reshape the Sun’s rotation and hint at mysteries below its surface.