Monday 28 December 2020

Chinese astronomers discover 591 high-velocity stars with LAMOST and Gaia

A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and Gaia, and 43 of them can even escape from the Galaxy.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-chinese-astronomers-high-velocity-stars-lamost.html