Blender Secrets - How to solve pole pinching on a UV sphere

It's easy to find nice equirectangular textures from websites like Nasa, that wrap around a UV Sphere. However, when you look at the poles of those spheres you see that there is a lot of texture pinching going on, which doesn't look good. Fortunately, there's an easy fix.

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