S5-HVS1 Flies Away from the Center of the Milky Way (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

S5-HVS1 Flies Away from the Center of the Milky Way

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The location of S5-HVS1 on the sky and the direction of its motion. The star is flying away from the galactic center, from which it was ejected 5 million years ago.

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Sergey Koposov

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