2023 April 28 - Runaway Star Alpha Camelopardalis
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2023-04-28

In today's image, we see the runaway star known as Alpha Camelopardalis. The star is moving at an extremely high speed. This may be the result of gravitational interactions in a cluster or the explosion of a companion star as a supernova. 

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