{
  "id": 17929524,
  "title": "What natural object is the roundest in the Universe?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/what-natural-object-is-the-roundest-in-the-universe",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Big Think",
    "slug": "big-think",
    "url": "https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/natural-object-roundest-universe/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Here on planet Earth, we normally think of our own home world as round, and yet it’s anything but a perfect sphere . If it were made of a perfect fluid, didn’t rotate, and were completely isolated from other masses that exert tidal forces on it (like the Sun and the Moon), it would be theoretically be massive enough to pull itself into a perfectly spherical shape, but that doesn’t line up with…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}