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runaway star
runaway star
noun Astronomy.
a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
Origin:
1965–70
1965–70
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Runaway star
is always a great word to know.
So is meteoroid. Does it mean:
| any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor |
| a zodiacal constellation between Gemini and Aries, containing the bright star Aldebaran also called the Bull |
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