Astronomers have found a pair of stellar oddballs out in the edges of our galaxy. The stars in question are a binary pair, and the two companions are moving much faster than anything should be in that part of the galaxy. The discovery was reported in a paper on April 11, 2016, in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The binary system is called PB3877, and at 18,000 light years away from us, it's not exactly in our neighborhood. It's out past the Scutum-Centaurus Arm, past the Perseus Arm, and even...
Astronomers have found a pair of stellar oddballs out in the edges of our galaxy. The stars in question are a binary pair, and the two companions are moving much faster than anything should be in that part of the galaxy. The discovery was reported in a paper on April 11, 2016, in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The binary system is called PB3877, and at 18,000 light years away from us, it's not exactly in our neighborhood. It's out past the Scutum-Centaurus Arm, past the Perseus Arm, and even...
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