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How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

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A: The short answer is gravity. This ‘force’, by virtue of the large masses of planets and stars, forces them into a spherical shape. Part of the answer is also geometry: a sphere is the most ...