Podscast scienceupdate.com Fastest Spinning Star
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/
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 »
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