August 2012
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So apparently, we were wrong about the shape of the sun until just a few days ago
For all of modern astronomy, we were pretty damn certain about the shape of the sun. It’s a giant ball of hot plasma and gas and magnetism, so it made sense that in test after test, it was an ever-changing, wobbly undulating thing, where the exact shape was never the same. But we were wrong. It’s a near perfect sphere, slightly flat near the poles, but otherwise almost perfectly round.
