Their gravitational tug on one another creates a shape that looks like a lentil — kind of elliptical but still a rotating disk. What scientists have uncovered so far about galaxies and their 3D ...

Determining a galaxy’s 3D shape While spiral galaxies tend to be small, rotate quickly and have a well-recognized pancake shape, giant elliptical galaxies rotate slowly and have a blobby ...

Elliptical galaxies lack the swirling arms of their more well-known siblings, spiral galaxies. Instead, they bear the rounded shape of an ellipse, a stretched-out circle. One of the most famous ...

Anamorphic beam shaping optics are used to transform elliptical laser beams to a round shape - for example before coupling them to single mode optical fibers. Conversely, there are cases where ...

While the planets within our solar system exhibit largely circular orbits around our Sun, astronomers continue to discover exoplanets whose orbits are largely elliptical, meaning their atmospheric and ...