It's the Great Pumpkin (Shaped Star), Charlie Brown!

A new NASA video explains the origin of a mammoth, pumpkin-shaped star, which is blasting off powerful X-rays and spinning so fast it's squashed to look like the festive gourd. Researchers combined data from NASA's Kepler space telescope and Swift X-Ray Telescope to search for light sources letting off intense X-rays. "These 18 stars rotate in just a few days on average, while the sun takes nearly a month," Steve Howell, an astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California and lead author on the new work, said in a statement.