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NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour (science.nasa.gov)
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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 […]

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[-] JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 months ago

1 million miles an hour is so fast, the speed of light is still 671 times faster.

[-] afk_strats@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

So you're saying it's relatively slow?

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Yes. Still relatively fast though too.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is pretty wild how so much mass could be accelerated to that speed.

The idea that a 3 body system could cause it is really cool. Probably not useful to us, but still very cool

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I'm getting mass just thinking about it.

[-] RubyRhod@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did Fukitech release a 3 body system!?

Dammit, I just got the 2!

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