{"id":88911,"date":"2019-03-24T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/astronomers-have-detected-a-star-careening-through-the-milky-way-at-2-5-million-mph"},"modified":"2019-03-24T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:02:43","slug":"astronomers-have-detected-a-star-careening-through-the-milky-way-at-2-5-million-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/astronomers-have-detected-a-star-careening-through-the-milky-way-at-2-5-million-mph","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Detected a Star Careening Through The Milky Way at 2.5 Million Mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5pGXqrovaFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many stars sedately tread the measure of the galaxies they inhabit, slowly orbiting the galactic core. Not a star called PSR J0002+6216, though. PSR J0002+6216, astronomers have discovered, is rocketing through the Milky Way at absolutely breakneck speeds.<\/p>\n<p>To be precise, it\u2019s travelling at 1,130 kilometres per second (700 miles per second). That could take it from Earth to the Moon in 6 minutes. It\u2019s one of the fastest stars we\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>And boy, is it spectacular \u2014 zooming away from the expanding cloud of a recent supernova explosion, leaving a trail behind after it punched through the explosion\u2019s outer shell of debris.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-cannonball-pulsar-is-careening-through-the-milky-way-at-2-5-million-miles-per-hour\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-cannonball-pulsar-is-careenin...s-per-hour<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many stars sedately tread the measure of the galaxies they inhabit, slowly orbiting the galactic core. Not a star called PSR J0002+6216, though. PSR J0002+6216, astronomers have discovered, is rocketing through the Milky Way at absolutely breakneck speeds. To be precise, it\u2019s travelling at 1,130 kilometres per second (700 miles per second). That could take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88911","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}