Ooooh Bugger.
Looks folks, best we not direct a blast of Web-O-Rhea in the direction of such objects. Someone/Something might decide to hitch a ride.
In perhaps the most violent punch that has ever been witnessed by humanity, a speeding pulsar has smashed right through a disk of matter bulging from the middle of a hefty star and blown a massive chunk of it guts into interstellar space at a significant fraction of light speed. That's according to top space boffins peering …
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+1 for George Michael - but how old is he now? He must be in his fifties.
The reported speed of the "spatter matter" was the giveaway.
It may have shot out like it had just left a fireman's hose when he was in his twenties, but these days it's probably more akin to a dripping tap....
Actually, according to the referenced article, about half that speed : «... The comparison with two previous observations shows that its luminosity has been steadily decreasing, and its average projected velocity was v⊥ ≈ 0.07c during 780 days covered by the observations.» Still, not half bad.... ;-)
Henri