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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 ...

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 ...