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   ocr: THE SUN DOES THE WAVE HOTSHOTS - - - - FIGURE 1 FIGURE: 2 FIGURE 3 Supergranules, the network cells ("dimples") seen in the Doppler image and movie to the left, have puzzled solar scientists for two and a half decades - the pattern appears to rotate faster (a few percent) than the gas which they are made up of! Using advanced analysis of SOHO/MDI data, a team of scientists at Stanford Uni- versity believe they have found the explanation: The Sun is doing The Wave! When people in a stadium do the wave, nobody actually moves in the direction of the wave - they just jump up and sit down. In the s ...