How many things can you name that travel at a million miles an hour? Probably not that many. However, some citizen scientists know at least one. The group recently discovered an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass of a small star. Fast and furiousUnlike the stars that calmly orbit the center of our galaxy, this newfound body — possibly a brown dwarf — 408 light years from Earth labeled CWISE J124909.08+362116.0 (CWISE J1249) is on a trajectory that will see i…