Using the Magellan Clay Telescope, astronomers have performed a spectroscopic study of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster NGC 3201. Results of the new study, published May 21 on the arXiv ...
Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...
A global team of researchers led by Indian scientists has made a world-first discovery of a blue straggler star hosting a brown dwarf companion in an extraordinarily compact binary system, where a ...