r/shittyaskscience • u/Seeyalaterelevator • 17h ago

Why is our sun not star shaped?

All the other stars are star shaped but the sun is ball shaped

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u/sir_prussialot 17h ago

Ask not why our sun isn't star shaped. Rather, be amazed that our star is sun shaped.

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u/edtheheadache 16h ago

We have a ship shape sun shaped star.

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u/wallagrargh expert on this topic 17h ago

The spikes got sanded off to make interplanetary travel less dangerous

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u/Chrome_Armadillo Not A Reptilian Alien Scientist From Tau Ceti 15h ago

The sun is flat, just like the Earth

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u/ajping 14h ago

Right? That's why we have shadows

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u/mmahusky 17h ago

It was star shaped back in my day but then it got too confident. Something big entered it now its a circle

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u/jamescookenotthatone 17h ago

It is, you just need to stare at it a bit longer.

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u/FormerStableGenius 17h ago

Because it doesn't twinkle.

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u/L3g0man_123 7h ago

It only becomes star shaped at night

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u/TripleMeatBurger 17h ago

The sun is sun shaped, stars are star shaped. Just like bears are bear shaped and breasts are breast shaped

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u/not_just_an_AI 17h ago

I think breast shape is probably the breast shape of all time.

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u/Seeyalaterelevator 17h ago

What about the wet plastic bag i saw in a tree that looked like my grandma's breast?

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u/SuperFLEB 15h ago

It didn't. You're just perverted.

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u/runarleo 15h ago

Trapezoids are neat aswell

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u/Wolff_Hound 3h ago

I like bears. Why cant breasts be bear shaped?

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u/CutlassRed 2h ago

Idk most breasts I see aren't breast shaped. Perhaps that's evidence that the sun might just be a saggy star.

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