For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the extended life-spans of extremely hot, metal-poor, blue-white stars located in globular clusters. These stars normally have a short life-span ...

For almost 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over the youthful appearance of stars known as blue stragglers. For almost 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over the youthful appearance of stars known ...

Mysterious “blue stragglers” are old stars that appear younger than they should — they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don’t show their age, but, until now, ...

Astronomershave found what they say is the strongest evidence yet that a mysterious classof stars known as "blue stragglers" are the result of stellarcannibalism. Bluestragglers are found throughout ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mysterious origins of the stellar version of vampires — stars that apparently drain life away ...

Blue straggler stars are an astronomical mystery – they are bigger and age more slowly than stars born at the same time. It turns out these stars are created by two kinds of violent interstellar ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract High-dispersion échelle spectra which include the Li I λ6708 line are reported for four blue stragglers. Two are field Population II stars ...

The mysterious origins of the stellar version of vampires — stars that apparently drain life away from other stars to look young — may just have been solved, scientists revealed. Blue stragglers are ...

Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age, but, until now, ...

Blue straggler stars are the weird grandparents of the galaxy: They should be old, but they act young. Finding and studying these strange stars helps us understand the complicated life cycles of ...

In a letter to the journal Nature published this week, astronomers Aaron Geller and Robert Mathieu offer an explanation for the origin of blue straggler stars in a star cluster called NGC 188. Geller ...

Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age, but, until now, ...