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Star shatters spinning speed record

by Pat Coate | February 18, 2007
"It was quite a surprise to us."
- Erik Kuulkers, ESA scientist/spokesperson

Paris, France - A star found spinning more than a thousand times every second is thought to be the fastest rotating star known.

It has been reduced to nothing but tightly huddled neutrons ... A thimbleful would weigh a hundred million tons back here on Earth.

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