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Ep. 679: High(per) Velocity Stars

Astronomy Cast

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The Ultimate Star Divorce

The kinematics of all the different things that can happen is endless in its variety. So you've got these two stars whirling around each other. And then one of them ceases to be. The other star is now hurled into space. This is the ultimate stellar divorce. No one gets to keep the house and off they go. It would be a bad day. Yeah.

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