Blue stragglers are created by the merger of two low-mass stars. But they have two different views of how these stars interact to create blue stragglers. One merger theory proposes that a violent collision of two unrelated stars creates a blue straggler. Another hypothesizes that a slow coalescence of a gravitationally bound pair creates the straggler star.

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https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-35.html

Headline Act: Blue Stragglers

Lee Martin plays guitar with raucous mob Blue Stragglers. He also answers questions for random websites, which has worked out very well for both us and them...

Simple things first – where are you guys from?

Oh hello there! We are from the historic market town of Horsham, West Sussex.

How did you meet?

Old college buddies who’s orbits

https://www.moshville.co.uk/feature/botd/2023/02/headline-act-blue-stragglers/

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