Roundest object in the Universe is a hot bright star, which is 5000 light years away from Earth. All rotating bodies like Earth, other planets and stars are slightly flatten.
For the new star, the radius at the Equator is 3 kilometers bigger than the radius measured at the Poles. This makes it the most spherical object ever found.
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Gottingen succeeded in measuring the oblateness of the slowly rotating star using asteroseismology – the study of the oscillations of stars.
“This makes Kepler 11145123 the roundest natural object ever measured, even more round than the Sun,” explains Gizon.
NASA’s Kepler mission observed the star’s oscillations continuously for more than four years.
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Kepler 11145123 is not the only star with suitable oscillations and precise brightness measurements. “We intend to apply this method to other stars observed by Kepler and the upcoming space missions TESS and PLATO. It will be particularly interesting to see how faster rotation and a stronger magnetic field can change a star’s shape,” Gizon said adding, “An important theoretical field in astrophysics has now become observational.”