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Half of all Stars could be rogues

marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2014 in Ten Forward
Just saw something interesting when browsing the science journal, check it out.
Seems like we don't know nearly as much of the universe as we think, very surprising.

Rogue stars outside galaxies may be everywhere
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 in the universe may be rogue, having been ejected from their birthplaces by galaxy collisions or mergers.
http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/11/rogue-stars-outside-galaxies-may-be-everywhere

A BBC article talks about the CIBER experiment responsible for this discovery here.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29917082
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    "Everywhere" is a bit misleading, as due to the phenomenal differences between galaxies a transgalactic traveler could fly an awfully long way without coming across one of these rogue stars.

    They are 'everywhere' in the same sense as Flying J truckstops are 'everywhere' along I-40.
    (For non-murricans or those who've never left the comfort of the big cities, that means you could drive for hours without seeing one.)
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Now are any of them orbited by planets with sentient life on them? Might be an interesting science fiction book to show what life might be like on such a planet.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    starkaos wrote: »
    Now are any of them orbited by planets with sentient life on them? Might be an interesting science fiction book to show what life might be like on such a planet.

    I can think of a book that has something close. Star Carrier: Singularity has a section told from the perspective of a race far in advance of us, living in a dwarf galaxy that is on a collision course with the Milky Way and gets "eaten", and of their efforts to survive the collision.
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited November 2014
    starkaos wrote: »
    Now are any of them orbited by planets with sentient life on them? Might be an interesting science fiction book to show what life might be like on such a planet.

    It'd also make a great Trek episode if/when Trek ventures outside the Milky Way (beyond that bit with the Traveler, of course). We've already had at least one species in Trek cross the great expanse between galaxies headed to the Milky Way.
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