Fast stars reveal the Sun’s galactic path ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Kinematics of High-Velocity Stars Utilizing LAMOST and Gaia DR3 Archives within 100 kpc"
The velocities of 1,200 runaway stars have helped pinpoint the Sun's movement through the Galaxy.
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Some stars race through space faster than a bullet — their speeds reach thousands of kilometers per second. These 'runaways' help astronomers map the gravity of the Milky Way and find clusters of invisible dark matter.
🎯 One of these stars is racing at 1,200 km/s — fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in five minutes.
🎬 Fast stars leaving the Galaxy evoke generation ships from science fiction, where the stars themselves are the eternal travelers.