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the-star-stuff: Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed The wildest ride in the galaxy is found on hypervelocity planets. These worlds got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and have been flung away at a twentieth of the speed of light. While rogue planets are common enough, these hypervelocity planets represent a much rarer case and can only be formed by a star system - specifically, a double star system - coming into contact with Sagittarius-A*, our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Previous research has indicated that when a binary star system gets too close to Sagittarius-A*, it’s possible the system to be ripped apart, with one star entering orbit around the black hole while the other is ejected at enormous speeds. [continue reading…] Via Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Artist’s conception by David A. Aguilar (CfA).
inothernews: E-RING / F-STOP   The robotic Cassini spacecraft, currently in orbit above Saturn, drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and and captured this incredible image, seen in exaggerated colors.  First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight — in fact, new rings were discovered, including the planet’s E ring, created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible above. Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth. (Photo: Cassini Imagining Team via NASA)


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