http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/ Tue, 21 May 2013 21:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/#comment-22149 Lanny Neel Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:52:15 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=9148#comment-22149 The illustration is anything but spherical/round….very elliptical. Picture taken through lots of atmosphere near the horizon distorts the shape. I still don’t understand why the sun isn’t more flattened, being mostly gas, and rotating rather quickly…should be an oblate spheroid, like the earth.

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