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Hypervelocity Escape: NASA Spots Mysterious Object Moving at 1 Million Miles per Hour


Citizen scientists collaborating with NASA's Backyard Worlds project have discovered a unique hypervelocity object, CWISE J1249, that is rapidly exiting the Milky Way. Powered by infrared images from NASA's WISE mission, this find includes contributions from amateur astronomers who identified its

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