A Star Sprints Away from Its Birthplace

The Hubble telescope has found a blue hot star which is 90 times bigger than our sun sprinting across space. It would make the trip from the Earth to the Moon in under two hours which is not the fastest ever but is pretty fast anyway.

A rogue star is probably to blame for breaking it away from the binary system and allowing it to get loose.

The star is from the 30 Doradus nebula which is also called the tarantula nebula and a mere 170,000 light years from Earth.

Image of the star escaping.

Hot blue star escapes

Hot blue star escapes

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