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NASA’S Hubble Finds Rare ‘Blue Straggler’ Stars In Milky Way’s Hub

Spitzer Space Telescope images
Blue straggler stars. (NASA)

Washington-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within our galaxy’s bulge.

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Blue stragglers are so named because they seemingly lag behind in the aging process, appearing younger than the population from which they formed. While they have been detected in many distant star clusters, and among nearby stars, they never have been…

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