Comments on: Sun’s almost perfectly round shape baffles scientists /news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/ News from the University of Hawaii Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/#comment-54863 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 01:21:52 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=9148#comment-54863 If you don’t want Comments 14 months later, I suggest you include a small statement to that effect with the Leave a Reply form—because I certainly expectedly my Comment of Oct. 31 two days ago to be posted.

I’d followed a Related stories link from a current news item of Oct. 30 received in my ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ e-mail account, And I Commented on this story here… But it’s missing, and it wasn’t a weekend either day…

Ray.

]]> By: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry /news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/#comment-54794 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:30:07 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=9148#comment-54794 Can we be sure the question is real–? The brilliantly glowing gas that defines the sun’s ‘surface’ is more a phenomenon than a quantity: The light-output-rate from the interior is what controls what’s visible–and that quantity is very-equally-constant in all directions…

]]> By: Lanny Neel /news/2012/08/21/suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists/#comment-22149 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:52:15 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=9148#comment-22149 The illustration is anything but spherical/round….very elliptical. Picture taken through lots of atmosphere near the horizon distorts the shape. I still don’t understand why the sun isn’t more flattened, being mostly gas, and rotating rather quickly…should be an oblate spheroid, like the earth.

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