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Rare image of runaway star speeding through space

Here's an extraordinary sight to take in, courtesy of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The probe sent back this rare image of what scientists call a runaway star. Astronomers believe it was set in motion either through the supernova explosion of a companion star or the result of a close encounter with some other stars in space.
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Speed Demon Creates a Shock

Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of the star Alpha Camelopardalis, or Alpha Cam in astronomer-speak, speeding through the sky like a motorcyclist zipping through rush-hour traffic. The supergiant star Alpha Cam is the bright star in the middle of this image, surrounded on one side by an arc-shaped cloud of dust and gas, coloured red in this infrared view.
Such fast-moving stars are called runaway stars. The distance and speed of Alpha Cam is somewhat uncertain. It is probably somewhere between 1,600 and 6,900 light-years away and moving at an astonishing rate of somewhere between 680 and 4,200 kilometres per second.
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