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The fastest spinning star

01/02/2006 | Elhuyar

They have detected the highest rotation speed of a press. Pulsar, one of Terza's 5-star neutron stars, rotates 716 revolutions per second.

Pulsars are very small stars. The newly discovered is only 16 kilometers in diameter, but any point in the equator of the star moves almost in the eighth part of the speed of light, that is, 35,000 kilometers per second. Earth rotates 160,000 times more slowly.

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