Is there anything out there or is all the mass collected into galaxies in all that we know about the universe?
2007-09-05 04:06:47 · 11 answers · asked by Balrog 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are a few odd stars that are kicked out of the galaxies they formed in due to gravitational forces and they wander alone out in the void, some of those orphaned stars are tens of thousands of light years from their closest neighbor.
2007-09-05 04:20:28 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galaxies are swirling collections of billions of stars.Just as a planet could get detached from it's own system and wander out into the space between the stars, I don't see why a star should not drift off into deep space between galaxies as well. The universe is chaotic enough for this to happen. Probably very rare.
2007-09-05 04:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by mince42 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
xc green_meklar is perfectly right. There are a few "lonesome wanderers" even some ""lonesome" star clusters, that didn't make it in to the "home" of any Galaxy, but these very few objects are either reminders of galaxy collisions or being blown out of their standard orbit at the edge of maybe small galaxies by giant events like massive super novae nearby and so on. What we could find much more are "cold rocks" as lonesome wanderers between the galaxies, much smaller and impossible to spot at all, for they don't have any kind of emission.
2007-09-05 04:53:17 · answer #3 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but it's not common. Most the lone star we're once part of a galaxy but for some reasons escape from it.
2007-09-05 04:24:29 · answer #4 · answered by Kaynos 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very, very few. Almost all the stars in the Universe (and I'm talking like 99.9999%) are inside galaxies. I would suspect that very few stars exist in intergalactic space, and they would probably be very difficult to spot with a telescope.
2007-09-05 04:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dark matter comprises the blackness of space.
Within it are millions of galaxies and stardust and comets and asteroids.
These are fragments of celestial bodies that have either died or are forming to create new galaxies
so i theorize that in the deep black dark space, there is a sea of star matter everywhere.
Proof being, look at hubble's pictures
2007-09-05 04:12:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are rogue stars which have been ejected from their original galaxy usually by some extreme gravitational interaction.
2007-09-05 04:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
our milky way galaxy is composed of... aw, crap, the answer is mostly ... NO.
true, we have a 'halo' of stars, a few minor clusters and even a pair of baby galaxies hanging around the neighborhood, but I think you mean "Way out in the space between galaxies are there stars?" no
2007-09-05 04:11:30 · answer #8 · answered by Faesson 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Most all are in orbit around the black hole in the middle of the Galaxy . The black hole can produce a gravity well that may be 100 light years across.
2007-09-05 04:20:33 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes there are.
Some get ejected, or or pulled out
in collisions.
They are rare though.
2007-09-05 05:01:11 · answer #10 · answered by Irv S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋