NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]
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Original Title: NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour – “CWISE J1249 is zooming out of the Milky Way at about 1 million miles per hour. But it also stands out for its low mass, which makes it difficult to classify as a celestial object.”