The phrase "a spinning star" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to astronomy, astrophysics, or metaphorical expressions involving motion or change.
Example: "The astronomers observed a spinning star, which emitted powerful bursts of energy."
Alternatives: "a rotating star" or "a whirling star".
As a PhD student, Bell Burnell noticed the first pulsar, a spinning star made up of neutrons, but it was her male superviser and a colleague who won the Nobel prize in 1974, but not Bell Burnell.
Later, as a PhD student at Cambridge University, Bell Burnell was part of the team that discovered the first pulsar, a spinning star made up of neutrons – in fact it was she who noticed the first one (and the second, third and fourth) because she was responsible for analysing the data.
A spinning star stretches and twists magnetic field lines, heating the gas and creating the star's corona, a halo of wispy plasma.
Theorists believe that so-called "long" gamma ray bursts--lasting longer than a few seconds--arise when a massive spinning star collapses to form a black hole.
A rapidly spinning star with a projected rotational velocity estimated at 206 km/s, it has a shell of circumstellar gas.
In one popular theory, a burst occurs when a very massive, rapidly spinning star collapses to form a black hole.
Also unlike other unbound stars, US 708 is a compact, rapidly spinning star rich in helium, the team reports online today in Science.
If those poles are not aligned with the star's axis of rotation, the beam sweeps around with the spinning star like a lighthouse beam.
But Eggleton warns that the team may actually have measured the shape of an equatorial disk of hot gas, ejected by the rapidly spinning star.
They were identified with the orbiting gas and the spinning star, although theorists have later come up with alternative explanations.
The gas piles up on the spinning star and ignites in fierce bursts every few hours.
