Imagine you were on a white dwarf. now imagine that you were orbiting another star every five minutes. HM Cancari is the fastest pair of binary stars ever discovered. Scientists originallybelieved this star to be just one giant star spinning around. Now they used a new telescope to find out that the stars are really two separate stars spinning around each other. These stars are going at about 310 miles per-second which is about 17.2222 times Earths speed which is 18 miles per-second. The location of these stars was not noted in the article.
This is a major discovery because now scientists can use the waves to find other stars and objects in the universe because they could bounce electromagnetic radiation off the waves and get readings to bounce back to find out where these waves go and what they hit. In addition, they can study if these stars collide the energy that comes off could be compared to other supernovas of stars and not white dwarfs and see how the energy that comes off a type 2 supernova and see how the energy decays and where it goes to learn more about how stars work. Also many new theories may come out of studying these stars and help us understand more about the universe and how we fit in.
Works Cited/picture credits.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/fastest-binary-stars-ever-discovered-spin-310-miles-second
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
NASA.gov
Another cool Article
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/concept-water-scraper-brings-monumental-architecture-open-sea
