Why is the sun so perfectly round ?
By impossib
@impossib (2)
August 21, 2012 2:42am CST
Why is the sun so perfectly round ?
if scaled to the size of the beach ball it would be so round that the difference between widest & narrowest diameter.
But why the sun is so perfect round.
2 responses
@roshigo58 (4856)
• Pune, India
21 Aug 12
Hi,
I think the answer to this question can be given only by it's creator and that is God. God only knows the answer to this question. The scientists also don't know the perfect answer.
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
21 Aug 12
It seems that this is a question which nobody has been able to answer as yet. Because the sun rotates, it ought to be wider at the equator than when measured through the poles but this 'flattening' effect is very much less than science would suggest that it should be.
In fact, the sun is almost a perfect sphere, as proved by recent measurements from a space laboratory: http://www.medindia.net/news/researchers-explain-why-the-suns-shape-is-almost-perfectly-round-105805-1.htm
The title of the article suggests that there is an explanation, though, in fact, Jeff Kuhn and Isabelle Scholl have only measured the shape of the sun more accurately than ever before and only give several possible explanations.


