Spinning Star (VFTS 102)
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R49hu
2012/01/05 13:02
An artist's rendation of the fastest star found to date.The massive star,called VFTS 102,rotates at the rate of a million miles per hour - 100 times faster than our sun.Centrifugal forces from this spin rate have flattened the star into an oblate shape and spunn off a disk hot plasma,seen edge on in this view from a hypothetical planet.The star may have 'spun up'by accreting material from a binary companion star.The repidly evolving companion later exploded as a supernova.The whriling star lies 160,000 light-years away in the large Magellanic cloud,a satellite galaxy of Milky Way. Source : Times Of India and Wikipedia
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punamchand
2012/01/05 15:48
great topic.thanks.
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EpIcInCoGnItO
2012/01/05 19:50
Okay quite informativesmiley
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Someone
2012/01/06 13:05
Few pics of VFTS 102 Star: [img=http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/Fastest-Rotating-Star-Discovered-by-the-VLT.jpg] [img=http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/613493main_hs-2011-39-a-print_full.jpg] [img=http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/12/medium_da12661a0c3b1abe17964c18f1f0b517.jpg]
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TemPEST
2012/01/13 15:32
Galactic smiley
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