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Astronomers Track a Runaway Star and Its Planet Traveling at Hyperspeed

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A small star and its orbiting planet are flying through the Milky Way at record speed.

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour ( 1.93 million kilometers per hour ) It may be the first found orbiting such a fast-moving star.

The objects were first spotted in 2011 after archival data from Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics ( MOA ).

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