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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 ...

A perplexing fast-spinning star just might be the "missing link" in a long-standing pulsar mystery, scientists say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Pulsars are fast-spinning stars that emit regular beams of light known for their clocklike regularity. So, when one strangely turned off for a year and a half, astronomers were surprised to find that ...

(Inside Science) — Astronomers have detected the fastest-spinning white dwarf star found yet — one that researchers say acts like an extraordinarily powerful magnetic propeller, a new study finds.

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely heavy star is releasing bursts of material as powerful as repeating atomic ...

Vega is a fundamental reference star for astronomers. But it seems that our perceptions of it have been misconceived — rather than spinning slowly, the star is a rapid rotator seen pole-on. For ...