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That’s broadly true in a practical sense, but it depends on what you mean by “roundest.”
The Sun is extremely close to a perfect sphere—much more so than planets like Earth or Jupiter—but it isn’t perfectly round. Because it rotates, it’s a very slightly flattened oblate spheroid (bulging a tiny bit at the equator).
The key detail is how small that distortion is: the Sun’s equatorial radius is only about a few kilometres larger than its polar radius, out of a total radius of ~696,000 km. That difference is so tiny that, for most observations, it effectively looks perfectly spherical.
So:
✔️ Yes: it is one of the roundest natural objects we know
❌ Not strictly true: it is not the single “roundest” in an absolute sense, because even gas giants, slowly rotating stars, and some moons can be comparably spherical
⚠️ Precision note: “roundness” depends on how you define and measure deviation from a perfect sphere
If you want, I can compare it numerically with Earth, Jupiter, or other stars to show just how spherical it really is.
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