Caltech Researchers Discover How Dying Stars Travel

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Caltech Researchers Discover How Dying Stars Travel

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For decades, astronomers have accepted that dead stars similar to our own only bloat to an immense size and then gently fade into silent stellar remnants. However, a groundbreaking study led by theoretical astrophysicist Jim Fuller at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and published via ScienceDaily reveals that dying Sun-like stars propel themselves through space. In ejecting their mass as untidy, unbalanced blobs of material, a star is gifted momentum pushes that physically shift its position in space.