There's more than one way to make a blue straggler
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed that a blue straggler in the core of a globular cluster (a very dense community of stars) is a massive, rapidly rotating star that is spinning 75 times faster than the Sun. This finding provides proof that blue stragglers are created by collisions or other intimate encounters in an overcrowded cluster core.
Credit:NASA & ESA
About the Image
About the Object
Name: | Blue straggler |
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Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Main Sequence |
Category: | Illustrations Stars |