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When the Earth takes 24 hours to rotate once, the white dwarf star LAMOST J0240 + 1952 rotates once in just * 25 seconds *.
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At a distance of 2,000 light-years, once every 25 seconds, LAMOST J0240 + 1952 became the fastest dwarf star in existence. This speed is due to its attraction to another red dwarf star located in the constellation Aries.
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The star was discovered on the night of August 7, 2021, by Ingrid Pellisoli, an astronomer at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
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