UC-San Diego: Lone Star State - Tracking a Low-Mass Star as It Speeds Across the Milky Way
June 12, 2024
June 12, 2024
LA JOLLA, California, June 12 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:
It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the Sun is actually orbiting around the Milky Way galaxy at an impressive rate of about 220 kilometers per second -- almost half a million miles per hour. As fast as that may seem, when a faint red star was discovered crossing the sky at a noticeably quick pace, scientists took notice. . . .
It may seem like the Sun is stationary while the planets in its orbit are moving, but the Sun is actually orbiting around the Milky Way galaxy at an impressive rate of about 220 kilometers per second -- almost half a million miles per hour. As fast as that may seem, when a faint red star was discovered crossing the sky at a noticeably quick pace, scientists took notice. . . .