Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.
Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound
Source: space
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