A jaw-droppingly fast star that is one of the oldest in the galaxy has been spotted racing across our galaxy by astronomers—who were looking for something else entirely.
The scientists noticed the speedy star traveling at 1.3 million miles per hour, nearly three times the speed of our own sun, which orbits around our Milky Way galaxy at around half a million miles per hour.
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By Jess Thomson:
A jaw-droppingly fast star that is one of the oldest in the galaxy has been spotted racing across our galaxy by astronomers—who were looking for something else entirely.
The scientists noticed the speedy star traveling at 1.3 million miles per hour, nearly three times the speed of our own sun, which orbits around our Milky Way galaxy at around half a million miles per hour.
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/old-star-traveling-very-fast-milky-way-1913729](https://www.newsweek.com/old-star-traveling-very-fast-milky-way-1913729)