NASA missions harvest a passel of ' pumpkin ' stars

Astronomers have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun. The stars, which spin so fast they ' ve been squashed into pumpkin-like shapes, are thought to be the result of close binary systems where two sun-like stars merge.
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