NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour
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 ...
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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1 million miles an hour is so fast, the speed of light is still 671 times faster.
So you're saying it's relatively slow?
Yes. Still relatively fast though too.
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
I'm getting mass just thinking about it.
Did Fukitech release a 3 body system!?
Dammit, I just got the 2!