Friday, February 25, 2005
A Star Leaves the Galaxy !!!
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Was it something we said?
A star has been spotted flying out of the Milky Way. And it apparently won't be back.
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently clocked the star's velocity at 1.5 million miles an hour, twice as much as it needs to escape the galaxy's gravitational field, making this the first galactic runaway to be discovered....
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Was it something we said?
A star has been spotted flying out of the Milky Way. And it apparently won't be back.
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently clocked the star's velocity at 1.5 million miles an hour, twice as much as it needs to escape the galaxy's gravitational field, making this the first galactic runaway to be discovered....
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