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General => Science => Topic started by: Ecurb Noselrub on October 20, 2011, 02:45:26 PM

Title: Formation of Blue Straggler stars
Post by: Ecurb Noselrub on October 20, 2011, 02:45:26 PM
Article on the formation of blue stragglers, a rare sort of star.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/19/why-these-blue-stars-shouldnt-exist/?hpt=hp_c2
Title: Re: Formation of Blue Straggler stars
Post by: Tank on October 20, 2011, 02:57:30 PM
Most interesting.
Title: Re: Formation of Blue Straggler stars
Post by: Recusant on October 20, 2011, 07:45:57 PM
Thanks for the link, Ecurb Noslerub. It's mildly amusing that a Christian/atheist debate seems to have developed in the comments section. There's nothing in the article that looks to me like it would serve to provoke such a debate, but I guess somebody thought "What the heck, let's argue about religious beliefs; this is as good a place as any."

Another article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44964854#.TqBqjJuxX26) on the story from Nature, which gives further information.