Mysterious Object Travelling At 1 Million Miles Per Hour Detected by NASA!

Citizen scientists involved in NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have discovered a mysterious object hurtling through space at a surprising speed of 1 million miles per hour.

Volunteers searching through NASA data to find new bodies or phenomena discovered this startling object which has been named “CWISE J1249.”

According to NASA, CWISE J1249 is zooming out of the Milky Way at about 1 million miles per hour. It also stands out for its low mass, for which it is hard to classify as a celestial object.

Astronomers feel, it could be a low-mass star, or if it doesn’t steadily fuse hydrogen in its core, it would be considered a brown dwarf, putting it somewhere between a gas giant planet and a star.

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 volunteers have discovered more than 4,000 brown dwarfs. But none of the others are known to be zooming way out of the galaxy.

This new object has much less iron and other metals than other stars and brown dwarfs. This unusual composition suggests that CWISE J1249 is quite old, likely from one of the first generations of stars in our galaxy.

Regarding its extremely high speed, one hypothesis is that CWISE J1249 originally came from a binary system with a white dwarf, which exploded as a supernova when it pulled off too much material from its companion. Another possibility is that it came from a tightly bound cluster of stars called a globular cluster, and a chance meeting with a pair of black holes sent it soaring away.