Maybe I've been out of the loop for a while but I swear it is the first time I have read this:
"CNN - An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found.
Likely a faint red star, the object zoomed along at a speed of about 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). In comparison, the sun orbits around the Milky Way at a rate of 450,000 miles per hour (200 kilometers per second).
If confirmed, the object would be the first known “hypervelocity” very low-mass star, according to a team of astronomers and citizen scientists whose study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
What?! The sun "orbits" the Milky Way? Is this to try and explain why the stars never move?
Mark
I have never heard of the sun "orbiting" the milky way in my entire life.