Andromeda launches stars at hypervelocity towards us
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Andromeda launches stars at hypervelocity towards us
A team of scientists from Germany and the United Kingdom have discovered that the neighboring Andromeda galaxy is launching stars at hyperspeed, some of which are heading in our direction, into our Milky Way galaxy.
These stars are the first effect of the colossal event that will lead to the merger of the two galaxies Andromeda and the Milky Way, something that will culminate in about 4,000 million years. These stars reach these enormous speeds because they are stars that either passed very close to a black hole or that are part of a pair or trio of stars and ended up being ejected at high speed.
The next star that will visit us will be Gliese 710, it is a star with just over half the mass of the sun, which is a very respectable size. It is currently about 62 light years away, but in 1,300,000 years. There are several studies that place it at between 0.65 and just one light year away.
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