[audio: st20120827.mp3] Planet Earth looks like a perfect sphere from outer space, but that can be deceiving. As a rotating sphere of gas it has flattening at the poles, which you might assume would ...

When you see a globe or other representation of Earth, it usually is shown as a perfect sphere, so many people may think that it is. The Earth, though, is what we call an Oblate Spheroid.

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Earth is not a perfect sphere. Yes, we've all been taught that the Earth is not flat, but it may shock you to learn that it's not perfectly spherical either.

The Earth is not round, but the Sun — contrary to long-standing scientific belief — is a different story. To be clear: the Earth certainly isn’t flat, but it’s definitely not a perfect sphere.

“Even though our planet is a sphere, it is not a perfect sphere,” according to NASA. “Because of the force caused when Earth rotates, the North and South Poles are slightly flat.

To the editor: Apparently, emeritus history professor Joyce Appleby didn't have her article vetted by her colleagues in UCLA's physics or astronomy department.

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They find that it is not a perfect sphere. ... on the sun they measure some 30,000 km across (twice as wide as Earth) and are made of seething hot magnetized plasma.