{"id":105138,"date":"2020-04-11T00:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/chinese-astronomer-discovers-fastest-rotating-star-in-milky-way"},"modified":"2020-04-11T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:07:50","slug":"chinese-astronomer-discovers-fastest-rotating-star-in-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/chinese-astronomer-discovers-fastest-rotating-star-in-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Chinese astronomer discovers fastest rotating star in Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-astronomer-discovers-fastest-rotating-star-in-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Milky Way in the sky of Ali Prefecture, southwest China\u2019s Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept.27, 2018. (Xinhua\/Purbu Zhaxi) <\/p>\n<p>The star, named LAMOST J040643.69+542347.8, has an estimated rotational velocity of 540 km per second, which is about 100 km per second faster than that of the previous record holder, HD 191423.<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) \u2014 A Chinese astronomer has discovered the fastest rotating star in the Milky Way galaxy based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) located in Xinglong, in northern China\u2019s Hebei Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way in the sky of Ali Prefecture, southwest China\u2019s Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept.27, 2018. (Xinhua\/Purbu Zhaxi) The star, named LAMOST J040643.69+542347.8, has an estimated rotational velocity of 540 km per second, which is about 100 km per second faster than that of the previous record holder, HD 191423. BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}