Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way

ScienceDaily ^ | 7/22/2010 | ScienceDaily

[Calvin Locke]

Not familiar with them, so those lyrics didn't get stuck in my head reading the earlier comments, like GP did.

It helps that I saw GP way back in the 1980s. In Boston, fwiw.

[Las Vegas Dave]

bookmarked..

[Southack]

I don’t know...a simpler explanation would be an anti-matter ejection getting red-shifted to appear blue, rather than a 3 star trifecta merger ricochet shot out of a black hole.

[cripplecreek]

Its a red hypergiant that’s 4900 light years away. I don’t have any estimates on when its expected to go boom. Its kind of an odd star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris

[TheOldLady]

At least it’s heading away from our galaxy and not toward it like the giant [anatomy term] that will get here by 2012 and destroy Earth.

[Eaker]

Ping

[Lurker]

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks The Comedian.

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[KoRn]

Very interesting. I was reading about this ‘ejected’ star just recently. I’m just glad the thing didn’t come our way. It probably would have went through our Solar System like a hot knife through butter!

Likely the only scenario where we would have wished for something ‘little’ like a comet. lol

[SunkenCiv]

Among other things, this topic would be perfect for the Halton Arp ping list, which thankfully never seemed like a good idea to me. ;’)

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[MissouriConservative]

“Tweaker stars. Send in the galactic SWAT team.”

Can’t do that, they’d just shoot the dog star.

[rdl6989]

"I'll get that sumbich. What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law!"

That cracked me up.

[dljordan]

“Can’t do that, they’d just shoot the dog star”

LOL!