Still, for more than 50 years, researchers have found it quite challenging to measure the sun's shape. "There are literally tens of measurements, and most of them don't agree," Kuhn said.

If the sun were a meter-wide (3.3-foot-wide) beach ball, Kuhn said, the variation in the sun's shape from the highest to the lowest point would be about 17 microns—less than the width of a fine ...

Sun's almost perfectly round shape baffles scientists. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 08 / 120816150801.htm ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles ...

It’s also totally wrong.. What Jeffrey Kuhn and his team at the University of Hawaii in Pukalani have discovered, in fact, is that the Sun’s shape doesn’t vary at all.

Shutterstock . Our sun shapes every day of life on Earth and has for billions of years — but just because we're massively dependent on the star doesn't mean we know all its secrets.