Lower
velocity runaway stars can be produced when one half of a binary pair explodes as a supernova, blasting its partner away.
Not exact matches
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.
Rho Leonis is a
runaway star and has a peculiar
velocity of 30 km / s at the minimum relative to the nearby
stars.