JaredJames
Apr28-11, 09:25 AM
Don't know if anyone seen it, it's out today in a journal:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42787604/ns/technology_and_science-space/
The first stars in the universe may have been extraordinarily fast spinners, whirling at more than a million miles per hour, scientists say.
These stars, which researchers called "spinstars," formed right after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and were likely massive giants, with eight times or more the mass of our sun, according to a new study. They lived fast and died young, after no more than 30 million years. The nuclear fusion reactions that drove these stars also provided the universe with its first elements heavier than helium.
A 12-billion-year-old globular cluster of stars known as NGC 6522 provided the basis for the proposal of spinstars.
Sounds interesting, one of the first to catch my attention for a while (perhaps I just like big numbers...).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42787604/ns/technology_and_science-space/
The first stars in the universe may have been extraordinarily fast spinners, whirling at more than a million miles per hour, scientists say.
These stars, which researchers called "spinstars," formed right after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and were likely massive giants, with eight times or more the mass of our sun, according to a new study. They lived fast and died young, after no more than 30 million years. The nuclear fusion reactions that drove these stars also provided the universe with its first elements heavier than helium.
A 12-billion-year-old globular cluster of stars known as NGC 6522 provided the basis for the proposal of spinstars.
Sounds interesting, one of the first to catch my attention for a while (perhaps I just like big numbers...).