We often think of stars as things that don't move around much, but in some galaxies, that's far from a universal truth. New observations made by NASA's powerful Chandra X-Ray Observatory reveal that some stars are routinely booted out of their own host galaxies and sent flying back out into space. The researchers spotted dozens of binary star pairs that had been, for lack of a better term, evicted from their homes after one of the two stars explodes into a supernova. NASA's telescope observed se...
We often think of stars as things that don't move around much, but in some galaxies, that's far from a universal truth. New observations made by NASA's powerful Chandra X-Ray Observatory reveal that some stars are routinely booted out of their own host galaxies and sent flying back out into space. The researchers spotted dozens of binary star pairs that had been, for lack of a better term, evicted from their homes after one of the two stars explodes into a supernova. NASA's telescope observed se...
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