Star Zips Through the Milky Way at Record Speed
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Though the Sun orbits the Milky Way at a staggering speed of 220 kilometers per second, a newly discovered faint red star is racing across the sky at an even more astonishing pace - approximately 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). This makes it the first known "hypervelocity" very low-mass star, identified by a collaboration between citizen scientists and astronomers utilizi