Indian researchers have done a comprehensive analysis to understand the formation of blue stragglers.<\/span><\/p>\n Blue stragglers <\/b>are a class of stars on open or globular clusters. They stand out as they are bigger and bluer than the rest of the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity giving them their spherical shapes and high concentrations of stars toward their centers.<\/span><\/p>\n First Discovered by:<\/b> Blue stragglers were first discovered by Allan Sandage in 1953<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Indian Researchers have studied 228 clusters with a total of 868 blue stragglers. <\/span>They compared the mass of the blue stragglers to the mass of the turnoff stars (which are the most massive \u2018normal\u2019 stars in the cluster) and predicted the formation mechanisms. <\/span>They have found that:<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of this study:<\/b><\/p>\n The study will help improve understanding of the stellar systems. It will help uncover exciting results in studies of large stellar populations including galaxies.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span>Blue straggler – bigger and bluer star formed when one star eats up another<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB<\/b> on <\/span>2nd September 2021<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Indian researchers have done a comprehensive analysis to understand the formation of blue stragglers. What are Blue Stragglers? Blue stragglers are a class of stars on open or globular clusters. They stand out as they are bigger and bluer than the rest of the stars. Note: A globular cluster is a… Continue reading Blue straggler – bigger and bluer star formed when one star eats up another<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[9494,8992],"class_list":["post-131223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-blue-stragglers","tag-space-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704810483},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Blue Stragglers?<\/b><\/h5>\n
About the study by Indian Researchers:<\/b><\/h5>\n
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