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Blue stragglers (Stars)

LC control no.sh 99002977
LC classificationQB843.B57
Topical headingBlue stragglers (Stars)
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Variant(s)Stragglers, Blue (Stars)
See alsoEarly stars
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Found inWork cat.: 93-73976: Blue stragglers, 1993: p. 3 (objects [stars] that lie near the main sequence but are bluer and brighter than the turn-off that is appropriate to their age)
Gloss. astron. astrophys. (blue straggler: stars (in a cluster) which fall close to the cluster's extrapolated main sequence but which occur a few magnitudes above its turnoff point)