When geographers say the Earth is round, they mean it's "sort of" round and a bit squashed at the poles. Comparatively, a team of astronomers led by Laurent Gizon from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Göttingen have found a star 5,000 light years away from us that's not only much rounder than the Earth, but is rounder than any natural object in the Universe.
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