NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
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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 […]

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 […]

  • JeromeVancouverEnglish
    440·
    2 months ago

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

    • afk_stratsEnglish
      280·
      2 months ago

      So you’re saying it’s relatively slow?

      • KlearEnglish
        60·
        2 months ago

        Yes. Still relatively fast though too.

    • wise_pancakeEnglish
      150·
      2 months ago2 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

      • chingaderaEnglish
        130·
        2 months ago

        I’m getting mass just thinking about it.

        • RubyRhodEnglish
          20·
          2 months ago2 months ago

          Did Fukitech release a 3 body system!?

          Dammit, I just got the 2!