Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

Vega's rapid rotation of once every 12.5 hours stretches it into an egg-like shape called an oblate spheroid. The star HV 2112 was first cataloged as a variable star in 1908 by astronomer ...

Why do people believe this, and is it even worth getting into a debate over? Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space ...

AML, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China The peculiar ...

Among them, the prolate spheroid has been a commonly studied geometry, which can produce a variety of flows in the wake, including variations as an inclination angle, $\theta$, (negative pitch) varies ...

Spheroid Universe, a futuristic Metaverse that augments the real world in every part of the Earth, has announced the upcoming launch of artificial intelligence (AI) Avatars that will inhabit the world ...