logo
welcome
Science Mission Directorate | Science

Science Mission Directorate | Science

This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or less than that of a small star

Science Mission Directorate | Science
Summary
Nutrition label

78% Informative

Citizen scientists working on NASA 's Backyard Worlds : Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.

This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or less than that of a small star.

CWISE J124909.08 +362116.0 is moving at about 1 million miles per hour .