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wandering stars

This was actually posted last night FISH.

Does anyone know if and when it would reach earth?

Does anyone know if and when it would reach earth?


Didnt say 15 but they are keeping a eye on it. Hopefully it will head toward the black hole in the middle of our galaxy and get flushed down the hole.

Sounds like it could stir things up to me.

Where did you read that it´s heading toward us? I thought it was going the other way. It´s red-shifted, which means it´s getting further away.

Sorry, I re-read the first post and saw the link.

Its traveling inbound toward the milky way it says..


The light from the star was both the wrong color (wavelength) for where the star is located and showed spectral signs that it is traveling inbound to the Milky Way at an unusually high speed — about 1.6 million miles per hour (2.6 million kilometers per hour).




"I agree that ejection from the Galactic center is not very plausible," said University of Texas astronomer John Kormendy, who was not involved the HE 0437-5439 discovery. "The star´s lifetime is too short, given the necessary travel time."

It´s more likely that the star is from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) a irregular galaxy very near, but outside the Milky Way and visible in the night skies of Earth´s Southern Hemisphere. But the LMC poses another problem, said Kormendy.

"Almost certainly the LMC does not have a supermassive black hole to do the same job," said Kormendy.

That means something even more unusual might have thrown the star towards the Milky Way, something like a sideways blast by a much bigger companion star that exploded as a supernova, he said.