Artist’s Impression of Blue Stragglers
Blue straggler stars are blue, bright stars, with a higher mass than the average for a cluster, and they are expected to sink towards the centre of a star cluster over time. Those closest to the cluster core are the first to migrate inwards, with more distant blue stragglers progressively moving inwards over time.
Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Calçada
About the Image
Id: | heic1915b |
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Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | 9 September 2019, 17:00 |
Related releases: | heic1915 |
Size: | 5000 x 2813 px |
About the Object
Type: | Unspecified : Star : Grouping : Cluster |
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Category: | Star Clusters |