blue straggler

English

Noun

blue straggler (plural blue stragglers)

1. (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

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