The Last Dance of a Dying Star

NGC1994D marked the violent death of a massive star. New research reveals that rotation in these final moments is far less predictable than previously thought (Credit : NASA/ESA)

Every star that has ever lived has been slowly spinning down, losing rotational energy across billions of years until, at the end, it collapses. But new research from Kyoto University has revealed that the story is far stranger than that. Some stars, in their final moments, don’t slow down at all, they spin up and nobody predicted it.

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