A handout image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows an artist's impression of the fastest rotating star found so far and picked up by the Very Large Telescope in Cerro Paranal, in the Atacama desert, Chile. This massive bright young star (VFTS 102) lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past and has been ejected from a double star system by its exploding companion. The astronomers also found that the star, which is around 25 times the mass of the Sun and about one hundred thousand times brighter, was moving through space at a significantly different speed from its neighbours. EPA/European Southern Observatory (ESO) / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
A handout image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows the fastest rotating star found so far (arrow) and picked up by the Very Large Telescope in Cerro Paranal, in the Atacama desert, Chile. This massive bright young star (VFTS 102) lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past and has been ejected from a double star system by its exploding companion.The astronomers also found that the star, which is around 25 times the mass of the Sun and about one hundred thousand times brighter, was moving through space at a significantly different speed from its neighbours. EPA/European Southern Observatory (ESO) / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
A handout image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows the wide-field view of the sky around the fastest rotating star found so far and picked up by the Very Large Telescope in Cerro Paranal, in the Atacama desert, Chile. This massive bright young star (VFTS 102) lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have had a violent past and has been ejected from a double star system by its exploding companion.The astronomers also found that the star, which is around 25 times the mass of the Sun and about one hundred thousand times brighter, was moving through space at a significantly different speed from its neighbours. EPA/European Southern Observatory (ESO) / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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