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August 2010
Mysteries of a Runaway Star
August 3, 2010
By Dr. Jim Logan
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has clocked a massive blue star nine times the size of our sun hurtling away from our galaxy at an incredible 1.6 million miles an hour. The star, dubbed HE 0437-5439, is one of sixteen so-called hypervelocity stars. Cosmic detectives, all members of the Hubble team, appear to have solved several fundamental mysteries surrounding this wayward blue giant.