Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star SystemBy Donna WeaverAs Br
Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star SystemBy Donna WeaverAs British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star wars far away in the Orion Nebula.The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle, which ended with the system breaking apart and at least three stars being ejected in different directions. The speedy, wayward stars went unnoticed for hundreds of years until, over the past few decades, two of them were spotted in infrared and radio observations, which could penetrate the thick dust in the Orion Nebula.Continue Reading -- source link
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