Fastest-spinning brown-dwarf star is detected by its bursts of radio waves
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 05:31
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have detected what may be the most-rapidly-rotating, ultra-cool, brown-dwarf star ever seen. The super-fast rotation period was measured by using the 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope—the same telescope that was used to discover the first planets ever found outside our solar system.