The blue lurker originally rotated more slowly and orbited a binary system consisting of two sun-like stars. About 500 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare "blue lurker" star that has been feeding on material from its two conjoined ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the&nbsp ...

Determined to find out, Leiner and her colleagues attained and analyzed fresh Hubble Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker stars in M67 — the results suggest it was ...

The merged star evolves into a giant star. As the huge photosphere expands, some of the material falls onto the outer ...

Located approximately 2,800 light-years from Earth, M67 is estimated to be between 3.2 and 5 billion years old. While the exact number of stars within M67 remains up for debate, astronomers used ...

Evolution of a "Blue Lurker" Star in a Triple System Panel 1: A triple star system containing three Sun-like stars. Two are very tightly orbiting. The third star has a much wider orbit.

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...

The lurker is a member of the open cluster M67, also known as the "King Cobra Cluster." This 4 billion-year-old group of 500 stars, located 2,800 light-years away, is loosely bound by gravity.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare "blue lurker" star that has been feeding on material from its two conjoined siblings. The fast-spinning star provides a detailed look at the ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open ...

The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...