This Week in Space Telescopes   /     Ep 32: Rapidly Spinning Stars

Description

Using archive data from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers are building a more complete picture of rapidly spinning stars. These are stellar objects that spin much more fast than our sun, roughly 10 times faster and exhibit some strange properties. Followup observations from the Swift X-ray telescope give us insight into the activity of these very strange stars. Here is the link to the NASA Press release that has an interesting picture and a video. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-missions-harvest-a-passel-of-pumpkin-stars

Subtitle
Using archive data from the Kepler Space Telescop…
Duration
00:34:27
Publishing date
2016-11-07 00:00
Link
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThisWeekInSpaceTelescopes/~3/jw7rAj8rOTQ/ep-32-rapidly-spinning-stars
Contributors
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