While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...
The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 160,000 light-years away. "This is the first time we actually have a sharp image of a star ...
Astronomers have for the first time made an enlarged image of a star’s death beyond the Milky Way. The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) “saw” the supergiant WOH G64. WOH G64 is located at a ...