Earth and Space

The cannonball star

Stories from Physics for 11-14 14-16 IOP RESOURCES

An unusual ‘cannonball star’ has been observed travelling at more than 1.54 million km per hour. The astrophysicists who observed the star believe it may have been ejected from a binary system in a supernova and carries traces of carbon formed in the exploded star.

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