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Old October 11th 19, 06:43 PM posted to alt.astronomy
herbert glazier
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Default Name of fastest spinning star?

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:42:59 PM UTC-7, Double-A wrote:
On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 6:39:12 PM UTC-7, Herbert Glazier wrote:
Its size and distance.bert



"An international team of astronomers have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. The star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a dizzying 1 million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun. It lies in a neighboring dwarf galaxy, about 160,000 light-years from Earth." - Google.

Double-A


WOW It must have a huge magnetic field and a gravity force as well.Bert