ICCUB astronomers lead the most ambitious study of runaway massive stars in the Milky Way (IMAGE)

University of Barcelona

ICCUB astronomers lead the most ambitious study of runaway massive stars in the Milky Way

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Runaway stars are stars that move through space at unusually high speeds, drifting away from the places where they were born.

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Credits: Mar Carretero-Castrillo; Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images; Tomohide Wada/Four-Dimensional Digital Universe Project (4D2U), NAOJ)/Science/AAAS.

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