Gas giants and brown dwarfs can develop highly oblate (flattened) shapes due to two primary factors: extreme tidal forces from close orbital proximity to their host star, as demonstrated by WASP-12b, or very rapid rotational periods that cause centrifugal forces to flatten the object at the poles.
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