'Straggler Stars' Gravitate to Anchor Globular Clusters | Animation
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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2012 · Science & Technology
Bright blue 'straggler' stars, with more mass than the average cluster, migrate inwards over time.The evolution of the cluster takes hundreds of millions of years with the timing varying from cluster to cluster. But the general pattern is similar.