Spinning Star (VFTS 102) by 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
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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