{"id":199730,"date":"2024-11-19T05:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/hypervelocity-object-breaks-free-from-the-milky-way-racing-at-1-million-mph"},"modified":"2024-11-19T05:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:25:37","slug":"hypervelocity-object-breaks-free-from-the-milky-way-racing-at-1-million-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/hypervelocity-object-breaks-free-from-the-milky-way-racing-at-1-million-mph","title":{"rendered":"Hypervelocity Object Breaks Free From The Milky Way, Racing At 1 Million MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypervelocity-object-breaks-free-from-the-milky-way-racing-at-1-million-mph2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CWISE J1249 is the first known brown dwarf-like object to leave the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>While stars typically follow predictable paths around the Milky Way, a groundbreaking discovery revealed a hypervelocity object, CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, speeding out of the galaxy at nearly 1 million miles per hour. This remarkable find, credited to NASA\u2019s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, marks the first time an object of such low mass, possibly a brown dwarf or small star, has been observed breaking free from the galaxy\u2019s gravitational pull.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from NASA\u2019s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission, citizen scientists identified the faint, fast-moving object. Initial observations from 2009\u20132011, followed by confirmations using ground-based telescopes, led to this discovery. The study, now published in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.08578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a><\/strong>, underscores the power of citizen science in advancing astronomical research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWISE J1249 is the first known brown dwarf-like object to leave the Milky Way. While stars typically follow predictable paths around the Milky Way, a groundbreaking discovery revealed a hypervelocity object, CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, speeding out of the galaxy at nearly 1 million miles per hour. This remarkable find, credited to NASA\u2019s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}