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 […]
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Citizen Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NEOWISE, Stars, Supernovae, The Universe, WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Posted on
August 15, 2024
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