Lemon-shaped world is the most stretched-out planet ever seen

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Lemon-Shaped World Is The Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen

By The Seattle Times

Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever so slightly at the equator, making it about 0.3% wider there than from pole to pole. But that’s nothing compared with PSR J2322-2650b, an object the mass of Jupiter stud ...Read more