video: Artist's impression of the ejection of the hypervelocity star, US 708. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 6, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Geier at European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'The fastest unbound star in our Galaxy ejected by a thermonuclear supernova.' view more
Credit: [Credit: NASA, ESA and P. Ruiz Lapuente (University of Barcelona); Cut and colored by S. Geier]