Need a refill on your cup of awesome today? As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about astronomy and the weird stuff that happens on a daily basis in space, I see a lot of amazing things. You'd think I'd get used to the awesomeness of astronomy, but the opposite is true: I'm always spellbound by what I find. Still, it takes a lot to seriously impress me, to really make me say Holy Frak. Well, astronomers have just announced that they have found a massive star that has been flung out of the cluster in which it was born. The star is huge -- 90 times the mass of the Sun -- and is screaming away from its nursery at 400,000 kilometers per hour. Holy Frak.
This incredible image is from the ESO's 2.2 meter telescope in Chile. It shows an overview of the sprawling 30 Doradus ...
