Massive stars, as they near the end of their lives, undergo dramatic transformations. One of the most striking phases occurs ...

Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

"We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star," said Keiichi Ohnaka, astrophysicist and the lead author of ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

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

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

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star beyond our Milky Way. This milestone, achieved ...