Astronomers find nearly 600 highvelocity stars

Beijing: A Chinese research team has discovered 591 high-velocity stars based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite.

High-velocity stars are stars that move unusually quickly, relative to other stars, and may at some point leave their galaxy.

Of the newly discovered stars, 43 may escape the gravitational constraints of the Milky Way galaxy in future and fly into intergalactic space.