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Originally Posted by Heel n Toe
Scientists find chunk of blown-apart star hurtling through Milky Way at breakneck speed
A chunk of stellar shrapnel is careening toward the edge of our Milky Way galaxy at almost 2 million mph (3.2 million kph), a new study reports.
"The star is moving so fast that it's almost certainly leaving the galaxy," study co-lead author J.J. Hermes, an associate professor of astronomy at Boston University, said in a statement.
The star, known as LP 40-365, currently lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth. And calling it a star may be a bit generous, actually; Hermes and his colleagues think it's a hunk of a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf that was blown apart in a violent supernova explosion after gobbling up too much mass from a companion.
More: https://www.space.com/runaway-dead-star-hurtles-through-milky-way
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That sounds like something from a Star Trek episode. The Enterprise will have to figure out how to save the civilization in the way of the star mass.
Amazing stuff. Glad it is 2,000 light years away. We should be safe!
