spheroidal
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These spheroidal galaxies contain very old stars, yet how they formed has remained a mystery -- until now.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
Draco and Sculptor: These are dwarf spheroidal galaxies close to the Milky Way.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Rather than going with the spheroidal shapes tech-makers have embraced, Ikea took the opposite approach, making its speaker a clean-lined square with a single retro-style knob on the front.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2018
Ceverino, D., Dekel, A., Tweed, D. & Primack, J. Early formation of massive, compact, spheroidal galaxies with classical profiles by violent disc instability or mergers.
From Nature ● Mar. 11, 2018
Spheroidal structure in travertin.—But what renders this recent limestone of peculiar interest to the geologist, is the spheroidal form which it assumes, analogous to that of the cascade of Tivoli, afterwards to be described.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
