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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How do stars go rogue?
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the universe could this happen?
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2015
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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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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.
Astronomy
May 13, 2014
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