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Artist's impression of blue stragglers


Date: 09 September 2019
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Calçada, CC BY 4.0

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.

 
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Last Update: 11 September 2019
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