Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Bob Hirshon from the AAAS science society discusses the discovery of the fastest spinning star in the popular science podcast: scienceupdate.com http://www.scienceupdate.com/2011/12/star/
An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates at a dizzying 1 million miles per hour and is very close to the point at … Read More »
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar – remnants of a supernova disrupted binary? P. L. Dufton, P. R. Dunstall, C. J. Evans, I. Brott, M. Cantiello, A. de Koter, S.E. de Mink, … Read More »