Carnival pimping and Grand Rounds information

Need some more reading? Check out the latest edition of Tangled Bank over at Aardvarchaeology, and the latest Skeptics' Circle over at The Skeptical Alchemist.

Meanwhile, as I mentioned previously, next week's Grand Rounds will be here at Aetiology. Send your submissions in to me by Sunday evening for maximum inclusion potential; I can't guarantee I'll have time to look over Monday stragglers.

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we continue contemplation of stars going splat there are blue stragglers in dwarf galaxies they are presumably binaries merged through McCrea type I mass transfer
Yesterday, there was much talking about blue stragglers. All preserved for posterity. Francesco on Hubble observations of blue stragglers in galactic globulars - and VLT and GALEX too.
Blue straggler stars are, formally, main sequence stars that are too blue and bright on the colour-magnitude diagram - they are more massive than they ought to be given their age, is the other way of looking at it.
European Southern Observatory press release on globular cluster 47 Tucanae

Hi Tara. Can you hear my keyboard? I've started working on my post for next week's Grand Rounds. I'll send it in soon. Thanks for hosting:-)