Guide to Space - How Fast Can Stars Spin? Objects With Extreme Rotation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vU3-LGrgM


From Jul 11, 2016.


Stars can spin faster or slower than the Sun. What’s the fastest
that’s ever been discovered, and what’s the fastest speed you can
have before they tear themselves apart? Everything in the
Universe is spinning. Spinning planets and their spinning moons
orbit around spinning stars, which orbit spinning galaxies. It’s
spinning all the way down.


 


Consider that fiery ball in the sky, the Sun. Like all stars, our
Sun rotates on its axis. You can’t tell because staring at the
Sun long enough will permanently damage your eyeballs. Instead
you can use a special purpose solar telescope to observe sunspots
and other features on the surface of the Sun.


 


Created by: Fraser Cain and Jason Harmer


Edited by: Chad Weber


Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray”


 


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