Defying logic
one of the unresolved mysteries of astrophysics has been the presence of runaway stars. These stars move through space without following the rotation or other motion of their parent galaxies. Now, scientists at the Lieden Observatory in the Netherlands have discovered the reason for this wandering motion of runaway stars. Most stars in the Universe are conglomerated in galaxies. The stars move around with the galaxy that typically rotates about its centre. However, some 10 per cent