Astronomers spy runaway star in Small Magellanic Cloud
Astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, said on March 27, 2018. that they've discovered a rare runaway star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The star is speeding across its little galaxy at 300,000 miles per hour (500,000 km/hour). At that speed, it would take about half a minute to travel from Los Angeles to New York. The runaway star is designated J01020100-7122208, and it's believed to have once been one of two stars orbiting around each other. Astronomers think that, when the companion star exploded as a supernova, the tremendous release of energy flung J01020100-7122208 into space at its high speed.
The star is the first runaway yellow supergiant star ever discovered, and only the second evolved runaway star to be found in another galaxy. A paper about its discovery has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Astronomical Journal and is currently published online via Arxiv. A statement from Lowell Observatory said:
After ten million years of traveling through space, the star evolved into a yellow supergiant, the object that we see today. Its journey took it 1.6 degrees across the sky, about three times the diameter of the full moon. The star will continue speeding through space until it too blows up as a supernova, likely in another three million years or so. When that happens, heavier elements will be created, and the resulting supernova remnant may form new stars or even planets on the outer edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
These stars typically only spend thousands or tens of thousands of years in the yellow supergiant phase before becoming red supergiants.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @07:48PM (1 child)
I thought it was only 62 years?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @07:57PM
The baby's cries were almost loud enough to damage one's hearing. Did it want food, or something else? No. At first glance, the baby was the only person in the room, but upon closer inspection, one would spot a hideous, obese man trying to forcibly jam his fat member into the baby girl's minuscule vagina. As a result, the baby was crying desperately. But wasn't this too much?
Sure, it was the baby's first time being raped, but weren't its screams a bit dramatic? The man then concluded that the new generation was filled with entitled crybabies and jammed his cock deep into the baby's hole. One of them felt immense pleasure, and the other felt immense pain. "I'll teach you all you need to know about men," said the man. Now, it was time for the man to utilize it until he was satisfied.
The man rapidly pumped his hips back and forth, completely ignoring the baby's screams. The man utilized it, and then utilized it some more. Utilize it! Utilize it! Utilize it! Suddenly, the man felt that things were about to get sticky, and shot everything he had into the baby's womb. The cock slowly emerged from the ravaged hole.
"Too good!" the man exclaimed. The baby's genitals were now bleeding profusely, a fact which made the man smile in earnest. He knew what he had to do now. Though it was true that utilizing the baby as it was intended had brought the man extraordinary pleasure, in the end, its desperate cries were proof that it was rebelling against men. As such, the man threw the baby off the balcony of his apartment, which was on the fifteenth floor. As the baby screamed for its life, the man simply chortled. If it didn't want this to happen, why did it sneer at men? It was a mystery.
Later, a passerby would find a baby smashed on the concrete in a parking lot. He knew. He knew that men's rights had won that day.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:10PM (2 children)
running from your dad after he learned of my existence.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Friday March 30 2018, @12:05AM (1 child)
Ya know, for years I got away from fart and your mom jokes. Then I had grandkids.
Hopefully we all win, but at least I'm having fun.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 30 2018, @02:37AM
Thwarts what grandpas are for
To win at chess is what fathers are for
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:09PM
"After ten million years of traveling through space, " been there, done that.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:15PM
Just what type of Nebulae did this Yellow Giant come from to cause it to leave so young.
Hopefully, it can avoid the wrong types of celestial bodies being shoved in its face, not snort stardust, or its life will just be squeezed out of existence by a black hole.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:36PM
when its buddy went boom, it likely lost quite a bit of its mass as it was blown out of its home.
It is therefore not a "normal" yellow supergiant.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:39PM
Ethanol went BOOM and now there's Runaway on the galactic sea?
What a coinkidink!
Soylent IS universal.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:57PM (1 child)
Is so dumbed down, especially the LA to NYC analogy.
That speed is not much in space, and everything is relative too. Our solar system (and sun) are moving at estimated 250 km/s (quick, tell me how long it'd take if I was going that fast from one American city to another so I can understand) as the galaxy spins. Now I guess the LMC is non spiral but still.
Maybe the star is moving at a different velocity angle than other stars in the area. That'd be useful to know.
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Friday March 30 2018, @01:01AM
corey wrote [soylentnews.org]:
Yes, the article does appear to be "dumbed down" to be much more accessible to the average reader. Conveniently, they also provided a link to a copy of the actual journal article on Arxiv [arxiv.org]:
In short, it is moving at 140 km/s above and beyond its expected radial velocity.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday March 29 2018, @11:29PM (3 children)
Scientists name star Runaway 1956
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 30 2018, @01:22AM (2 children)
Most people have to wait until they die to get their own star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @06:31AM (1 child)
Most people don't get their own stars.
But many of those who do get their own stars don't have to die first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_on_the_Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 30 2018, @09:59AM
My star draws the BIGGEST crowds!
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 30 2018, @02:34AM
This is evident from the abundyof heavy isotopes in the solar system, such as lead and uranium
Iron is the most stable element. You can get energy out of fusing lighter elements, or by dividing heavier elements but to create heavy elements you have to add energy
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @12:56PM
I read the headline as 'First Runaway Yellow Submarine...'
Feck me, it's either new glasses or I need to sleep more.
On subject, what cosmic terror lurks in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud which causes even stars to flee screaming?