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The Origin of Runaway Stars (1 of 2)

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The Origin of Runaway Stars (1 of 2)

image: Artist impression of a massive runway star being ejected from a dense star cluster (by Tomohide Wada/Four-Dimensional Digital Universe Project (4D2U), NAOJ). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 17, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.S. Fujii at Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands, and colleagues, was titled, “The Origin of OB Runaway Stars.” view more 

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