NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]

Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It is pretty wild how so much mass could be accelerated to that speed.

    The idea that a 3 body system could cause it is really cool. Probably not useful to us, but still very cool