Blue Stars at High Galactic Latitudes

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1839. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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When you look up into the sky at night, most of the blue stars you see are hot main-sequence stars associated with the Milky Way, which have rather recently formed from the thin layer of dust and gas in the plane of our Galaxy. Because these stars evolve rapidly, we do not see them at high galactic latitudes, where there is no interstellar material from which they can form. Hence blue stars at hi...

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