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high-velocity star  

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  • A high-velocity star is a star traveling faster than 60 to 100 km/s (definitions vary) relative to the average motion of star's in the solar neighborhood. High-velocity stars typically belong to the halo population and travel around the galactic center in eccentric orbits, often of large inclination to the galactic plane. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/H/high-velocity_star.html)

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