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The great escape: A celestial object is fleeing the Milky Way at record speed

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Citizen scientists discovered an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.

CWISE J124909.08 +362116.0 is 408 light years from Earth .

It is the first such object found with the mass of a small star.

The discovery was made by volunteers involved in NASA 's Backyard Worlds : Planet 9 project.