India, May 19 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
In a breakthrough that could reshape astronomers' understanding of how stars evolve, researchers have made the world's first confirmed discovery of a blue straggler star hosting a brown dwarf companion in an extraordinarily compact binary system.
Scientists have long been puzzled by blue straggler stars, which appear brighter and bluer than the main-sequence turn-off in star clusters, defying standard stellar evolution because all cluster stars are expected to be of similar age.
Scientists from Gauhati University supported under INSPIRE programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala (IIA), Bangalore Aryabhatta Resear...