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I haven’t always been afraid of flying.  When I was little and going on holidays to the Costa del Sol for two glorious weeks of water-fights and Spanish doughnuts, the flight was one of the highlights of the trip.  The speed and power of take off made me squeal with excitement and then later, when the plane had [...]

Scientists using NASAs RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar activity the sun develops a thin cantaloupe skin that significantly increases its apparent oblateness: the sun’s equatorial radius becomes slightly larger than its poles.