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Astronomers discovered 591 high-velocity stars – Tech Explorist
The 591 high-velocity stars discovered this time doubled the total number previously discovered, bringing the current total number exceeding 1,000.
After the first high-velocity star was discovered in 2005, over 550 ones have been discovered with multiple telescopes in 15 years.
Now an exploration group, driven by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has found 591 high-velocity stars dependent on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and Gaia, and 43 of them can even escape from the Galaxy.
Dr. Li Yinbi, lead author of the study, said, “The…
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