Study on Blue Stragglers

Recently, scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, conducted a study on blue stragglers, a particular type of star seen in clusters and also, sometimes, alone. The researchers have found support for one way to understand the aberrant behaviour of blue stragglers.

  • For the study, the researchers used the UVIT instrument (Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope) of ASTROSAT, India’s first science observatory in space.

Blue Stragglers

  • Blue Straggler Stars are hot, blue, massive stars and seem to have a different trajectory of evolution from the norm.
  • There are a few stars that, when they are expected to start expanding in size ....
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