We Were Totally Wrong About the Sun's Shape Until Yesterday [Space]

For as long as we've bothered to care about heavenly bodies other than our own, we've thought that the size of the Sun varies throughout its 11-year solar cycles. Intense magnetic forces, the theory went, rendered it as malleable as a sturdy stress ball. That was a good theory, backed up by decades of data. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Rj2it7nBw_k/we-were-totally-wrong-about-the-suns-shape-until-yesterday

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