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An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found. Likely a faint red star, the object zoomed along at a speed of about 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). In comparison, the sun orbits around the Milky Way at a rate of 450,000 miles per hour (200 kilom…

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Mysterious object moving through space so fast it could escape the Milky Way: scientists puzzled

A mysterious space object spotted with the help of citizen scientists is moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the galaxy’s gravity and reach intergalactic space, new research suggests.

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An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is

Citizen scientists spotted an object zipping through the Milky Way at more than 1 million miles an hour, and a new study shows it could be a rare hypervelocity star.

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