Blue straggler
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blue-straggler-173-11713181
title:
Blue straggler
text:
A blue straggler is a type of star that is more luminous and bluer than expected. Typically identified in a stellar cluster, they have a higher effective temperature than the main sequence turnoff point for the cluster, where ordinary stars begin to evolve towards the red giant branch. Blue stragglers were first discovered by Allan Sandage in 1953 while performing photometry of the stars in the globular cluster M3.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
A main sequence star that is more luminous and bluer than expected
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler
date created:
2003-04-08T13:11:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T07:37:39Z
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image:
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