Space
New Class of Runaway Stars Escaping Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a new class of solitary runaway stars. These hypervelocity bodies are moving incredibly fast- about a million-plus mile-per-hour relative to the motion of Milky Way. This speed enables them to break away from the grasp of the galaxy.
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