Gam

Its story

Gamma Camelopardalis spins on itself at more than 200 km/s at its equator, a speed so extreme it has deformed the star into a flattened sphere whose equatorial radius is 17% larger than its polar one. It is a white A2 subgiant with three and a half solar masses and nearly six solar radii, sitting at 359 light-years in the quiet Giraffe, a circumpolar constellation poor in bright stars.