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ESO’s (European Southern Observatory) Very Large Telescope has picked up the fastest rotating star found so far. This massive bright young star lies in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past and has been ejected from a double star system by its exploding companion.

An international team of astronomers has been using ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, to make a survey of the heaviest and brightest stars in the Tarantula Nebula (eso1117), in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The title of this blog post is also the name of my box turtle...she didn't have a violent past, but don't get between her and lettuce! And, like stars, she'll probably outlive me...

Source: redOrbit Astronomers Find Fastest Rotating Star Ever