Oddball 'Blue Stragglers' Are Stellar Cannibals
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 13:21
in Astronomy & Space
Relationships between globular cluster mass and number of binary star systems points to stellar cannibalism as source of 'blue stragglers'.
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