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Blue stragglers were first discovered by Allan Sandage in 1953 while performing photometry.

There are 19 RR Lyrae variable star candidates and as many as 23 blue stragglers.

that the brightest and most massive stars of Cygnus OB2 would be blue stragglers too.

Armée back up to some 49,000 French combatants as well as about 40,000 stragglers.

It hosts relatively many blue stragglers, stars that appear to be much younger than the cluster.

at the same distance and age, save for approximately 30 anomalous blue stragglers, being however generally products of mass transfer in binaries or stellar.

(June 1998), "Blue stragglers in open clusters.

Many "blue stragglers" (stars which seemingly lag behind in their rate of aging) have been spotted.

appear yellow and aged, however, you also see a number of so-called blue stragglers, stars that appear younger than their true age.

He also identified one or possibly two blue stragglers.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

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