#intergalactic space

Rogue stars – the stellar outcasts

Not all stars are in a galaxy. They may have once belonged to a galaxy, but they are not a part of it any more. Some of these so-called “rogue stars” or “intergalactic stars” have actually been observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

These stars were a source of much discussion in the scientific community during the late 1990s, and are generally thought to be the result either of galaxies…

Astronomers discover 11 runaway galaxies

Washington, April 24 : In a first, astronomers have spotted 11 runaway galaxies that have been flung out of their homes to wander the void of intergalactic space.

Till date, scientists knew of about two dozen runaway stars and found one runaway star cluster escaping its galaxy forever.

“These galaxies are facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,” said…

Half the stars in the universe may exist outside of galaxies

Every so often you get a reminder of how little we know about the universe: Rogue stars outside galaxies may be everywhere | Science/AAAS | News.

You’ve heard of rogue planets, floating through the universe untethered to any solar system. Now meet rogue stars, which drift through space with no galaxy to call home. A new study has come to the startling conclusion that as many as half of all stars…

Quo by ORLY “Star Formation”

Aloha! Here I am again! This time, my absence was not because of work. I FINALLY (two months later) had my lumpectomy! Yay! Lump free! Next Tuesday, I get to find out what that silly little lump actually is. Everything crossed that it’s just a fibroadenoma.

So I spent last week laying on the couch and watching copious amounts of Hawaii Five-0 (Alex O’Loughlin is way too hot for life %100 of the…