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Nov 30, 2009
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run'away star"



Astron.
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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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