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NASA Finds Star With a Tail

Posted by samzenpus on from the streaking-across-the-universe dept.

Andrew Stellman writes "NASA astronomers held a press conference announcing that a new ultraviolet mosaic from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows a speeding star named Mira that's leaving an enormous trail of "seeds" for new solar systems. Mira is traveling faster than a speeding bullet, and has a tail that's 13 light-years long and over 30,000 years old. The website has images and a replay of the teleconference."

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  1. Faster than a speeding bullet? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    More powerful than a locomotive? Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?

    Look! Up in the sky!