Observations of two sequences of blue stragglers in a young, sparse star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud re-opens the debate about the dominant formation mechanism of these anomalous stars.
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Sills, A. Clumsy encounters or graceful mergers?. Nat Astron 2, 362–363 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0455-7
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