Blue straggler
Videos
A blue straggler is a type of star that is more luminous and bluer than expected. Typically identified in a stellar cluster, they have a higher effective temperature than the main sequence turnoff poi
A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6397, with a number of bright blue stragglers present
NGC 6752, a globular cluster that contains a high number of blue straggler stars
47 Tucanae contains at least 21 blue stragglers near its core.
Star
Videos
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth
Blue straggler
…A blue straggler is a type of star that is more luminous and bluer than expected. Typically identified in a stellar cluster, they have a higher effective temperature than the main sequence…
The Sun, a G-type main-sequence star, the closest to Earth
A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Stars in the night sky
Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image showing a multitude of stars in the Milky Way galaxy