Space / 2017-12-08
Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy
Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy
NASA's image library records Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
NASA image release December 5, 2011 This is an artist's concept of the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our Sun does. Centrifugal forces from this dizzying spin rate have flattened the star into an oblate shape and spun off a disk of h