Sentences with phrase «hypervelocity stars found»
But a new study shows that most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far might actually come from outside our own galaxy, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way at nearly 400 kilometers per second.
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Confirmation will hopefully come next year when Europe's star - mapping satellite Gaia publishes its full catalog: The team predicts it should find more hypervelocity stars along the past and future orbit of the LMC.
The star, dubbed HE 0437 - 5439, is an early - type star and one of ten so - called hypervelocity stars so far found speeding away from the Milky Way.