Real shooting stars exist, but they aren't the streaks you see in a clear night sky
"I see thy glory like a shooting star."
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'Lopsided' supernova could be responsible for rogue hypervelocity stars
Hypervelocity stars have been observed traversing the Galaxy at extreme velocities (700 km/s), but the mechanisms that give rise to such phenomena are still debated. Astronomer Thomas M. Tauris argues that lopsided supernova ...
Astronomy
Feb 11, 2015
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Artificial brain helps Gaia catch speeding stars
With the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA's Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our galaxy to its outskirts. This could provide key information about some of the most obscure ...
Astronomy
Jun 26, 2017
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Can super-fast stars unveil dark matter's secrets?
Zoom! A star was recently spotted speeding at 1.4 million miles an hour (2.2 million km/hr), which happened to be the closest and second-brightest of the so-called "hypervelocity" stars found so far.
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May 13, 2014
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