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The runaway star
In the 30 Doradus nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a dwarf galaxy satellite of our own), the Hubble space telescope shows an area (box in the right-hand corner) where a star is moving away at a speed of 400,000 km per hour! 90 times more massive than our sun, this celestial body could in fact have been ejected by two other stars.
Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Walsh (ST-ECF) for the Hubble image - ESO for the overall image

The picture explained on Spacetelescope.org

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