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Noun
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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
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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