Runaway Stars Go Ballistic

Space.com ^ | Jan 7th, '09 | Andrea Thompson

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"A total of 14 young stars racing through clouds of gas like bullets, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and tails of glowing gas, have been revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They represent a new type of runaway stars, scientists say.

The discovery of the speedy stars by Hubble, announced here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, came as something of a shock to the astronomers who found them."

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(images at link, near end of article)

[Cementjungle]

Runaway Stars Go Ballistic

I thought it was a Paris Hilton article.

[Nailbiter]

Laughing, I misread title as “Runway stars go ballistic”, clicked thinking I was going to find exploding runway models.

[Thrownatbirth]

They're mad because a less-structured universe challenges their core beliefs in Newtonian mechanics.

[HighlyOpinionated]

That (space photos) [Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures called bow shocks. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Sahai (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)] is outstanding (in space). :-)