Dr Dimitris Stamatellos, reader in astrophysics at UCLan, said these young planets are oblate spheroids – spheres squashed from the top and the bottom but bulging in the middle. He said ...
Utilizing advanced computer simulations, researchers examined the thermal conditions within protostellar disks, revealing that emerging protoplanets take on the shape of oblate spheroids ...
it is observed that e.g. the absorption of light for particles of the same volume and the same ratio of the diameter of the particle as viewed from above and its height is much larger for truncated ...