blue straggler

noun

blue straggler

noun

1

Astronomy, Natural sciences An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.

This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168:

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