Stars are the source of all light, life, and warmth, and we take their name in vain to describe no-talent carbon wastes on reality TV. "Jesus, what is wrong with reality stars" is triple blasphemy against every noun in that sentence. Which is why we're looking at real stars worthy of your attention.
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Intergalactic Hypervelocity Star
Intergalactic hypervelocity star! Astrophysics often sounds like mistranslated anime about space police. Especially since SDSS J0907 is an intergalactic rogue, nicknamed the Outlaw Star, hurtled out of the galaxy by the loss of its partner.
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"I'm several billion years too old for this shit."
Outlaw was half of a binary system, a pair of stars orbiting around a shared center, which didn't play by the rules, where "the rules" are "Don't dive into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way if you want to continue existing." In an awesome overlap of astrophysics with action movies, Outlaw's partner was killed, and Outlaw was slingshotted out at escape velocity. The escape velocity of the entire galaxy.
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