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A runaway star speeds in an unusual direction

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A runaway star speeds in an unusual direction
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cloud in space where new stars are forming, called 30 Doradus, aka the Tarantula Nebula. The enlarged inset shows a star that appears to have been kicked out of the nebula. In the inset, an arrow points to the runaway star and a dashed arrow indicates its presumed direction of motion. Image via NASA.



A runaway star moves faster and in a different direction



The sun and all of the Milky Way‘s stars are moving in orbit around the center of our g

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