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A blue straggler is a main-sequence star in an open or globular cluster that is more luminous and bluer than stars at the main sequence turnoff point.

The cluster is relatively small, having just 94 blue straggler stars.

18 probable blue straggler candidates have been identified.

dwarf progenitor has given the primary the spectral signature of a blue straggler that appears much younger than its actual age of about 10 billion years.

seems to be at most 20 million years old, which implies that it is a blue straggler, a star born from the merger of a binary star system, which was earlier.

Eggen has this star flagged as a blue straggler and a member of the HR1614 supercluster.

vialis include straggler daisy, horseherb, lawnflower, and creeping Cinderella-weed.

temperature for its luminosity, and thus is considered an extreme blue straggler.

It is a blue straggler in the open cluster Messier 7, a star that is unexpectedly hot compared.

Twelve blue straggler stars have been located in the cluster, with three of them showing short-period.

All known SX Phoenicis variables in globular clusters are blue straggler stars.

the core region contains a concentration of interaction-formed blue straggler stars, most of which formed 2–5 billion years ago.

can create binary star systems, as well as a type of star called a blue straggler that is formed by mass transfer.

47 blue straggler candidates have been identified, formed from the merger of two stars in.

The primary is possibly a blue straggler of the Hyades group.

They rescued survivors from an already sunken ship before Z26 sank one straggler from the convoy.

German Navy, in the early morning of March 2, she was identified as a straggler separated from her convoy; an initial attack by U-759 failed due to engine.

A blue straggler star is also present, along with some spectroscopic binaries and variable.

It is a candidate blue straggler and shows characteristics of an Am star.

Synonyms:

strayer; poke; drone; trailer; lagger; dawdler; laggard;

Antonyms:

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