Astronomers have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. The hot blue giant rotates at a dizzying 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h), or 100 times faster than our Sun. The star is close to the ...
New ultraviolet observations indicate a Milky Way star is spinning nearly 200 times faster than Earth’s sun, the probable result of a merger between two sun-like stars whose binary orbit recently ...
STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Vega, the second brightest star in the northern sky, is a ‘standard’ that has been used to calibrate astronomical observations from the ultraviolet through to the infrared, and it ...