Lone stars. (a trillion stars not belonging to any galaxy may be found in intergalactic space in the Virgo constellation)(Astronomy)(Brief Article) From: Science News | Date: February 1, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Call them outcasts, label them nomads. They're stars without a home galaxy, and for the first time astronomers have spied hundreds of them adrift in the Virgo cluster, a collection of galaxies some 60 million light-years from Earth. Each isolated star is gravitationally bound to the cluster as a whole but not to any particular galaxy among the 2,500 in Virgo.

Harry C. Ferguson of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Nial Tanvir of the University of Cambridge in England, and Ted von Hippel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison found the stars by aiming the Hubble ...

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