Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M 30
Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M 30
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Two shades of blue straggler
'Blue stragglers' are massive stars in clusters — where all the stars are pretty much the same age — that at their luminosity, should have evolved to become giants and white dwarfs. They are thought to be normal main-sequence stars that have gained mass through either transfer between binary companions or direct coll...
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Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M 30
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0028-0836
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10.1038/nature08607