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18 Aug 2024, 5:48 pm

https://futurism.com/the-byte/amateur-astronomer-fast-object-galaxy


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18 Aug 2024, 6:12 pm

Link to Original Report  HERE .

Amateur astronomers discovered a brown dwarf star speeding at about 1.3 million miles per hour across our Milky Way galaxy.  The star is just 400 light-years from Earth.


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18 Aug 2024, 9:04 pm

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