... 30.11.1999 . Massive stars -- upwards of tens of times the mass of the Sun - profoundly affect their galactic environment. ... This star, though, somehow ejects energetic "bullets" of high-energy particles, appearing as red streaks toward the lower right of the this image. ... Runaway Star . ... 3C 295: X-rays From A Giant Galaxy . ... Five billion light-years away, the giant elliptical galaxy 3C295 is a prodigious source of energy at radio wavelengths. ... A Leonids Meteor Storm in 1999 . ...