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Star is on the run
UK astronomers have clocked a runaway star speeding at an incredible 1.6MILLION miles an hour through space.
They believe it was kicked out of the Large Magellanic Cloud – the closest galaxy to our own Milky Way – by a massive black hole.
Scientists from the University of Hertfordshire spotted the star with German colleagues from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, using the European Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Astronomer Uli Heber said: “At such a speed, the star would go around the Earth in less than a minute!”
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