Sentence examples for blue straggler from inspiring English sources

The first is the so-called "blue straggler" problem.

It would be bluer than it should be and would be of a type known to astronomers as a "blue straggler".

In addition, I introduce a new method to discern BHB stars from Blue Straggler stars using a colour dependent membership probability, thus circumventing the need for spectroscopic data.

Dr. Shara described the observations as "almost certainly irrefutable proof" that this particular blue straggler formed in a collision rather than the simple coalescing of a binary system.

While astronomers can spot the results of the collisions, the blue straggler stars, they almost certainly will never see the collisions.

One blue straggler was a whopping 2.4 times heavier -- "so massive that it can't have formed by the merger of two stars," Dr. Saffer said.

What are "blue stragglers" in globular clusters?

In 1964, two British astronomers, Sir Fred Hoyle and Sir William H. McCrea, independently proposed that blue stragglers resulted when two stars captured each other.

Dr. Mario Mateo of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. Nemec and others showed that at least some blue stragglers in low-density clusters resulted from mass transfer between two companion stars.

In the mass-transfer hypothesis, some blue stragglers could burn brightly because the captured stars could combine their gases, becoming a single gaseous envelope surrounding two nuclei.

These celestial objects of mystery are called blue stragglers, for they appear somehow to have fallen behind in normal stellar evolution.