Best of Last Week—Roundest object ever found, taking aim at 'fake' news and one face men recognize better than women
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 08:51
in Astronomy & Space
(Science X)—It was a big week for space science as a team with members from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen found that a distant star was the roundest object ever observed in nature—they found that the difference between the equatorial and polar radii of a star named Kepler 11145123 was only 3 kilometers.