Voyager spacecraft
May 14 2007, Irani

A mind-blowing finding has defied the age-old textbook information on the shape of our solar system – i.e. its being ‘elliptical’ – which defines the shape of an egg, with the Sun at the center of it.

NASA has recently come...

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