NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
August 15, 2024
August 15, 2024
PASADENA, California, Aug. 15 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
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 of a small star.
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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 of a small star.
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