In the last year, astronomers from Wyoming Uni have discovered 100 of the fastest-moving stars in the Milky Way galaxy with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and use of the Wyoming Infrared Observatory (WIRO) on Jelm Mountain, Wyo.
When some swift, massive stars – moving at > 50,000 miles/h- plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship or a supersonic plane creates a shockwave in front of it. Called bow shocks, these dramatic arc-shaped features in space are helping researchers to uncover massive, so-called runaway stars...
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