egg-shaped

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Could this egg-shaped structure be what the future home of Indian astronauts in space looks like?

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

"We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star," says Ohnaka, the lead author of a study reporting the observations published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

And the magazine’s tour of the influencer Emma Chamberlain’s home feels eerily saturated with buzzy designs: the bulbous couch, the egg-shaped stone dining table, the wavy velvet chair.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Through these mergers, spiral galaxies turn into elliptical galaxies, egg-shaped galaxies without the spiral arms, which leads to the growth of supermassive black holes.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

We ditched our bikes and started the trek to the big rocks at the edge of the tide, egg-shaped hunks of granite banging together underfoot.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen