Stars Aren't Sperical - Space Engine
Channel: Christopher Mark Gore
Date: 2019-12-25

Stars don't have to be perfectly round and spherical, and often they aren't.
Space Engine actually shows this which is really cool.
The specific star I'm looking at is Gore's Nova (U Orionis / HD 39816 /HIP 28041).
It was named after a distant cousin of mine who discovered it and a lot of other stars back in the late 1800's, John Ellard Gore, which is why I was originally interested in the star to begin with.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Orionis


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ellard_Gore