A little over 50 million light years away is the elliptical galaxy known as M87. This celestial object has been of interest to astronomers over the years largely due to its incredible size — its mass is over one-trillion times that of our sun. It has a new surprise in store for sky watchers, though. It has just flung a bundle of stars our way at more than 2 million miles per hour.
A distant galaxy just threw a star cluster toward us at 2 million miles per hour
A little over 50 million light years away is the elliptical galaxy known as M87. This celestial object has been of interest to astronomers over the years largely due to its incredible size — its mass is over one-trillion times that of our sun. It has a new surprise in store for sky watchers, though.…
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