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FROM: U.S. AIR FORCE The 6th Space Warning Squadron, located at Cape Cod Air Force Station, Mass., operates a Pave PAWS early warning r...
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The following excerpt is from the SEC website: “Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2011 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged D...
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NHB OR Staff Recognized for 'Earth Day Every Day' Efforts
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FROM: VETERANS AFFAIRS Infectious Diseases » Malaria Military members may be at risk for malaria during deployment or personal travel to...
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The following is from the Department of Justice website: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 New Zealand Fishing Company Indicted for Enviromental ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011
STAR FOUND ROTATING 100 TIMES FASTER THAN OUR SUN
The following excerpt is from the NASA website:
Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy
This artist's concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun does. Centrifugal forces from this dizzying spin rate have flattened the star into an oblate shape and spun off a disk of hot plasma, seen edge on in this view from a hypothetical planet. The star may have "spun up" by accreting material from a binary companion star. The rapidly evolving companion later exploded as a supernova. The whirling star lies 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.