Thursday, August 4, 2016

Dizzy dwarf star will spin itself to death



A couple of statistics here are difficult to fathom: 

The star takes only 13.2 seconds to spin once on its axis. Imagine Earth doing that…hold on tightly.

Dizzy has a surface gravity one million times stronger than Earth’s.




Video: White Dwarf Blasts Companion Star with Energy Beam 

 


 


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