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Lone Star State: Tracking a low-mass star as it speeds across the Milky Way - EurekAlert


A team of astronomers, led by Adam Burgasser, and citizen scientists have discovered a rare hypervelocity L subdwarf star racing through the Milky Way. More remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether.

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