Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the New York Times: Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth of Rotterdam’s harbor [in the Netherlands] is a wind turbine so large it is difficult to photograph. The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later models will be taller than any…
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Heavy-metal alien planet may be shaped like a football
An exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cannonball-exoplanet-may-be-stretched-football.html