Astronomers have been able to look at the sun and a handful of other stars in the Milky Way up close, thanks to modern advances in telescopes. But getting a detailed view of a star outside the galaxy ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ...

The star’s name is WOH G64, offering rare onomatopoeic satisfaction for sounding exactly like what you might say when you see ...

The immense amounts of energy generated by this process cause the star to balloon into a vast red giant like WOH G64 and blasts the outer layers away into space. Compared to observations made in ...

A star more than 160,000 light-years from Earth has just become the epic subject of the first close-up portrait of a star in ...

A massive star 2,000 times the Sun's size ejects gas and dust in its final days, with astronomers snapping a ...

Stardust left behind from the dawn of our solar system has allowed scientists to estimate the Sun took between 10 and 20 million years to form. While there is consensus the Sun formed about 4.6 ...