Sentences with phrase «known hypervelocity»
Discovered in 2005, US 708 differs from other known hypervelocity stars.
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As the team report today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and at the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, most of the known hypervelocity stars have trajectories that would fit this scenario.
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Only a few so - called hypervelocity stars are known to travel with velocities so high that they are unbound, meaning they will not orbit the galaxy, but instead will escape its gravity to wander intergalactic space.
US 708 is one of roughly a couple dozen suns known as hypervelocity stars.