Sunday, December 27, 2009

Vampires and collisions rejuvenate stars

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered two distinct kinds of “rejuvenated” stars in the globular cluster Messier 30. A new study shows that both stellar collisions and a process sometimes called vampirism are behind this cosmic “face lift”.
The scientists also uncover evidence that both sorts of blue stragglers were produced during [...]



Full story at http://spacefellowship.com/2009/12/23/vampires-and-collisions-rejuvenate-stars/

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