{"id":131174,"date":"2021-11-24T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T01:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/wild-propeller-star-smashes-the-record-for-fastest-spinning-white-dwarf"},"modified":"2021-11-24T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T02:00:35","slug":"wild-propeller-star-smashes-the-record-for-fastest-spinning-white-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/wild-propeller-star-smashes-the-record-for-fastest-spinning-white-dwarf","title":{"rendered":"Wild \u2018Propeller\u2019 Star Smashes The Record For Fastest-Spinning White Dwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-propeller-star-smashes-the-record-for-fastest-spinning-white-dwarf2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dead star is spinning so rapidly, it officially has the fastest known spin rate of any star of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a white dwarf star, named LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 (J0240+1952 for short) and located 2,015 light-years away, and it has an insane rotation rate of just 25 seconds. That pips the previous record holder by a significant margin \u2013 CTCV J2056-3014, with a spin rate of 29 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>It also bears a close similarity to another fast white dwarf, AE Aquarii, which has a spin rate of 33 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead star is spinning so rapidly, it officially has the fastest known spin rate of any star of its kind. It\u2019s a white dwarf star, named LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 (J0240+1952 for short) and located 2,015 light-years away, and it has an insane rotation rate of just 25 seconds. That pips the previous record holder by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131178,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174\/revisions\/131178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}