Chinese astronomers newly discovered 591 high-speed stars, 43 of which will fly out of the Milky Way

On December 25, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that the station’s researchers such as Li Yinbi, Luo Ali, Lu Youjun, and Zhao Gang used China’s Guo Shoujing Telescope (Large-area Multi-Object Optical Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, LAMOST for short) and European space The Gaia Space Telescope has recently discovered 591 high-speed stars, 43 of which can escape the gravitational constraints of the Milky Way and will fly out of the Milky Way in the future.

The picture shows the position and orbit of the newly discovered 591 high-speed stars in the Milky Way.

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Release time: 2020-12-25 21:04:10 【Editor: Li Jun】