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Spinning Star (VFTS 102)

R49hu · Jan 5, 2012 13:02 4 62 #Nature
R49hu OP
Jan 5, 2012 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
4 replies
punamchand
Jan 5, 2012 15:48
#1
great topic.thanks.
EpIcInCoGnItO
Jan 5, 2012 19:50
#2
Okay quite informativesmiley
Someone
Jan 6, 2012 13:05
#3
Few pics of VFTS 102 Star: image image image
TemPEST
Jan 13, 2012 15:32
#4
Galactic smiley