Boston American University Astronomers has discovered fragments of a fugitive star of the Milky Way, traveling at 2 million miles per hour roughly 1,000 times faster than a bullet.
The discovered object was found to be about a fifth of the size of the Earth and about 2,000 light-years away. According to scientists, the fragments are a rare type of huge white piston which survived a huge explosion.
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The discovery will provide an insight into the other stars. Professor JG Hermes, Assistant Professor in Astronomy at Boston University said the fragments are moving very quickly and “ they will surely leave our galaxy.”
Astronomers Odeli Potterman and JJ JG Hermes studied data of Nasa Hubble Space Telescope and the satellite scanning the transboundary outer planets, and the nearby and remote stars as well as different types of light data from telescopes to find that “LP 40- 365 “will only not be expelled from the galaxy, but, based on brightness patterns, they are on its way out of it.”
Petterman said the shrapnel from the explosion “revolves around its axis very quickly, but they are slow at a rate of 9 hours, despite its great speed.” (AW)
