Tracking Down the Milky Way’s Most Distant Stars

The most distant stars discovered in the Milky Way might have been ripped away from a companion galaxy.
This illustration demonstrates how small the Milky Way would look from the location of ULAS J0744+25, a red giant star nearly 775,000 light-years away.Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS; Data: SOHO (ESA & NASA) / John Bochanski (Haverford College) / Jackie Faherty (AMNH and Carnegie Institute's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism)
Over the last decade, multiple groups of astronomers