Hubble discovered that the surviving star has an unusually fast spin rate that can only be explained if it was feeding off of the gas expelled by the stellar merger. The name "blue lurker" might ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare "blue lurker" star that has ...

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 ...