{"id":"c25582b7-4d4a-4ac7-a295-23731468959b","url":"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-star-has-the-strangest-sky-in-the-galaxy/","domain":"scientificamerican.com","outlet":{"name":"Scientific American","country":"US","cred":4,"lean":0,"curated":true},"title":"This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy","plainHeadline":"S301 star orbits Sgr A* at 1.7 billion km, reshaping its sky.","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["S301 orbits the supermassive black hole Sgr A* at the galaxy center.","Its perigalacticon distance brings it as close as 1.7 billion km to Sgr A*.","This proximity creates an extraordinary, distorted view of the cosmos from S301.","The star travels at about 90 million km/h, ~8% of light speed during closest approach.","Relativistic Doppler effects and light aberration drastically shift observed sky positions."],"topics":["Space","Science","Environment"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-04T10:45:00.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-04T11:57:43.869Z","story":null}