Called bow shocks, these dramatic arc - shaped features in space are helping researchers to uncover massive, so - called runaway stars. (sciencedaily.com)
They hunted for runaway stars — objects escaping the cluster at high velocities — that might have been kicked out of orbit by the supernova explosion that formed the magnetar. (sciencedaily.com)
Some of the first bow shocks from runaway stars were identified in the 1980s by David Van Buren of NASA's JPL in Pasadena, Calif.. (sciencedaily.com)