Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 13:28
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary stars are eating each other and turning into a blue straggler.
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