MPC171 Flarestar Observatory
Hyper-Velocity Star- LAMOST HVS1
In the past decade, astronomers have found about 20 of these odd stars. Hypervelocity stars appear to be remaining pairs of binary stars that once orbited each other and got too close to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's centre. Intense gravity from the black hole -- which has the mass of 4 million stars like our sun -- captures one star so it orbits the hole closely, and slingshots the other on a trajectory headed beyond the galaxy.
Discovered in 2014, This newly discovered hypervelocity star outshines our own sun: It is four times hotter and about 3,400 times brighter (if viewed from the same distance). But compared with our 4.6-billion-year-old sun, the newly discovered LAMOST-HVS1 is a youngster born only 32 million years ago.
This star was imaged through a 10" SCT . Camera: Canon DSLR 1100D working at a telescope's configuration of F/6.3. Image taken from Flarestar Observatory, Malta.
Hyper-Velocity Star- LAMOST HVS1
In the past decade, astronomers have found about 20 of these odd stars. Hypervelocity stars appear to be remaining pairs of binary stars that once orbited each other and got too close to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's centre. Intense gravity from the black hole -- which has the mass of 4 million stars like our sun -- captures one star so it orbits the hole closely, and slingshots the other on a trajectory headed beyond the galaxy.
Discovered in 2014, This newly discovered hypervelocity star outshines our own sun: It is four times hotter and about 3,400 times brighter (if viewed from the same distance). But compared with our 4.6-billion-year-old sun, the newly discovered LAMOST-HVS1 is a youngster born only 32 million years ago.
This star was imaged through a 10" SCT . Camera: Canon DSLR 1100D working at a telescope's configuration of F/6.3. Image taken from Flarestar Observatory, Malta.