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 […]

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 […]

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•1 month ago

      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.

      The galaxy presumably.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]English
      9•1 month ago

      I’m guessing the milkyway’s core seeing as they are taking about it possibly having enough velocity to escape the galaxy