This is the fastest stars in the universe. The researchers call him as a Star Spin or Spinstars. Round their rotation more than a million miles per hour or 1.6 million km per hour.
According to researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of Potsdam, Germany, this star was formed 13.7 billion years ago after the big bang and never became a huge star.
Even the size of its mass up to eight times greater than the mass of our sun. However, because giant stars made of hydrogen and helium gas has a short lifetime, he died young.
In a report published in the journal Nature, Dr Christina Chiappini and colleagues at the Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, utilizing the European Southern Observatory's telescope Very Large Telescope in Chile to study the chemical composition of some old stars in the Milky Way.
They studied the ratio of chemical elements that exist in a star cluster NGC-6522. Star clusters were chosen because they are old enough to form the original chemical elements such as produced by the stars who attended the first generation.
Furthermore, Chiapini concluded that the first generation of stars are very massive and rotating with very high speed to achieve the degree of mixing elements so that they can produce heavier elements.
Their calculations indicate that the first generation of stars are rotating fast with a speed of 500 kilometers per second - or 250 times higher than the speed of our sun. No wonder if then they called these stars as 'Spinstars'.
As reported by ABC news site, Professor Mike Bessell of Mount Stromlo Observatory, owned by Australian National University, Chiapini paper explains the importance of rotation or the rotation of stars beginning to produce such elements later found in star later generations.
In addition to convection resulting in a star caused mixing, a fast rotation help new elements are formed and appear on the surface.
"The rotation of this star helping to produce elements Neon Carbon-22 from the central star. The element that then allows the formation of the higher elements in our stars, which normally only occurs in low-mass stars," Bessell said.
Bessell added, elements heavier formed very early in the universe, providing the seeds for the formation of other things, lately.
"This gives us another option for the creation of major elements like nitrogen and all the heavier elements such as tin and zinc. All the elements that we think is not going to be created, until long after that."
According to researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of Potsdam, Germany, this star was formed 13.7 billion years ago after the big bang and never became a huge star.
Even the size of its mass up to eight times greater than the mass of our sun. However, because giant stars made of hydrogen and helium gas has a short lifetime, he died young.
In a report published in the journal Nature, Dr Christina Chiappini and colleagues at the Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, utilizing the European Southern Observatory's telescope Very Large Telescope in Chile to study the chemical composition of some old stars in the Milky Way.
They studied the ratio of chemical elements that exist in a star cluster NGC-6522. Star clusters were chosen because they are old enough to form the original chemical elements such as produced by the stars who attended the first generation.
Furthermore, Chiapini concluded that the first generation of stars are very massive and rotating with very high speed to achieve the degree of mixing elements so that they can produce heavier elements.
Their calculations indicate that the first generation of stars are rotating fast with a speed of 500 kilometers per second - or 250 times higher than the speed of our sun. No wonder if then they called these stars as 'Spinstars'.
As reported by ABC news site, Professor Mike Bessell of Mount Stromlo Observatory, owned by Australian National University, Chiapini paper explains the importance of rotation or the rotation of stars beginning to produce such elements later found in star later generations.
In addition to convection resulting in a star caused mixing, a fast rotation help new elements are formed and appear on the surface.
"The rotation of this star helping to produce elements Neon Carbon-22 from the central star. The element that then allows the formation of the higher elements in our stars, which normally only occurs in low-mass stars," Bessell said.
Bessell added, elements heavier formed very early in the universe, providing the seeds for the formation of other things, lately.
"This gives us another option for the creation of major elements like nitrogen and all the heavier elements such as tin and zinc. All the elements that we think is not going to be created, until long after that."
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