Researchers Conduct the Largest Study of Runaway Stars in the Milky Way

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The positions and trajectories of 20 hypervelocity stars as reconstructed from data acquired by the Gaia satellite, overlaid on top of an artistic view of the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/Marchetti et al 2018/NASA/ESA/Hubble

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive observational study to date of runaway massive stars, which includes an analysis of the rotation and binarity of these stars in our galaxy.

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