List of blue straggler stars explained

This is a list of blue straggler stars in order of their distance from Earth.

List

Milky Way galaxy

Cluster and otherStarsStar system Median distance (ly)Stars in systemSpectral typeApparent magnitude (V)Comments and references
Hyades5151 1 B8V The Closest Blue Straggler star to Earth.
153 1 B8V
153 1 B9.5V
153 1 B8V
153 1 B9.5V
Coma Star Cluster3260 ± 20 1 A3 V 5.17
266 ± 5 1 F0p 4.95
276 ± 5 2 F6 III + A3 V 4.80
Pleiades Cluster (M45) 3Maia (20 Tauri) 380 ± 10 1 B8III 3.87
Atlas (27 Tauri) 431 ± 13 1 B8III 3.63
440 2 B6IV 4.30 [1]
Messier 67 (King Cobra or Golden Eye Cluster)32,800 1 B
2,800 1 B
2,800 1 B
NGC 634714,000 1 B2V
NGC 190714,400 1 B9IV-V
NGC 188 (Caldwell 1, Polarissima Cluster)35,000 1 B
5,000 1 B
5,000 1 B
NGC 320125,400 1 B1V
5,400 1 A1V
NGC 2420110,000 1 B
113,000 1 B
NGC 6791113,300 1 B
2115,000 ± 33 1 B
115,800 1 B
Messier 13 (Hercules Cluster) 122,200 1 B
Messier 3 (NGC 5272)133,900 1 B

See also

Notes and References

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