blue straggler

English

Noun

blue straggler (plural blue stragglers)

(astronomy) An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.
- 2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168:
  This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.

Translations

unusually hot and blue star

Arabic: نجوم زرقاء شاردَة m
Catalan: estrella endarrerida blava f
German: Blaue Nachzügler (de) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blå etterslenger

Nynorsk: blå etternølar
Spanish: estrella rezagada azul f
Swedish: blå eftersläntrar
Turkish: mavi başıboş

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