According to a new proposal made by researchers at the University in Leiden in the Netherlands, it could be that runaway stars in the Milky Way are the products of failed threesomes within extremely crowded star clusters.
In other words, these objects were common stars at first, moving relatively slowly about their... |
18 November 2011
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Astronomers say it could be possible that at least a few of the earliest stars ever to appear in the Universe are still lit and alive, more than 13 billion years after they appeared. Some of them might even be inside our galaxy, the Milky Way.The Cosmos as a whole I more than 13.75 billion years old, but the first st... |
4 February 2011
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Astronomers have been puzzled at the way the Large Magellanic Cloud produces stars for several decades. The galaxy, which is one of our own Milky Way's closest neighbors, contains numerous massive stars that are at least 100 times more massive than the Sun, and about 10 million times as bright. Though their pres... |
10 June 2010
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It's no longer a secret to astronomers that certain types of space structures that contain stars can kick some of these fireballs out. This goes for binary systems, stellar nurseries, solar systems, galaxies and so on. However, detecting the occurrence is very difficult, and not much has thus far been inferred a... |
12 May 2010
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In 1988, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) astrophysicist Jack Hills used the theory of gravity to calculate the existence of a peculiar class of stars, whose members traveled faster than the galactic escape velocity. His calculations were inferred from a theoretical model in which a binary star system passed ver... |
30 September 2009
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A new Hubble study revealed the existence of 14 previously-unknown runaway stars, speeding through the galaxy at enormous velocities for celestial bodies their size. They are followed by a huge trail of gases, which makes them resemble comets at first glance. Astronomers say that their trails are several hundred time... |
9 January 2009
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