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Back to EpisodesStrong Force Threw a Star Out of Our Galaxy Like a Slingshot
Published 10 months ago
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The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System and much more... It's the second largest galaxy in the local group. So is there a way for us to know what's going on in the Milky Way? Sometimes objects can enter our Galaxy and escape it super fast. Like in 2017, when astronomers noticed a star streaking out of the Milky Way at a speed roughly four times faster than our Sun orbits. What was it?
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