NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour

[Waspie_Dwarf]

NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour

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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or less than that of a small star. 

Backyard Worlds uses images from NASA’s WISE, or Wide Field Infrared Explorer, mission, which mapped the sky in infrared light from 2009 to 2011. It was re-activated as NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) in 2013 and retired on Aug. 8, 2024.

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[BadChadB33]

It's the Entity from The Fifth Element. Quick someone get the 4 stones and Leelo's multipass.

[jethrofloyd]

12 hours ago, BadChadB33 said:

It's the Entity from The Fifth Element.

No. It's a blob from the horror/Sci-fi classic The Blob (1968). During his journey in the universe The Blob became huge.

 

Edited August 24 by jethrofloyd