See The First Close-Up Of A Star Outside Our Galaxy In A Weird ‘Cocoon’
WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
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 process, aging stars expand about 100 to 1,000 times their original size. But this particular star is what's sometimes called a red super giant because it's so exceptionally huge.
Astronomers take first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy
Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI).
First-Ever Detailed Image of a Star Outside Milky Way—and It Could Explode
The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular demise.
First Detailed Image of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Is Out of This World
The star’s name is WOH G64, offering rare onomatopoeic satisfaction for sounding exactly like what you might say when you see the image for the first time. The star is a red supergiant ( like the famous Betelgeuse) and it sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that contains some 30 billion stars.
Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video)
Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying behemoth star wrapped in a death shroud of gas about to explode.
This Is the First Ever Close-Up Image of a Star Beyond the Confines of the Milky Way Galaxy
For millennia humankind has peered into the night sky looking at stars far beyond the confines of our solar system. Now, in a first for our species, astronomers have captured an image of a star beyond our galaxy in the highest,
See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky Way
Astronomers have been studying star WOH G64 for a while. It’s a red supergiant in the galaxy next door, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it is believed to be in the last stages before going supernova.
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Astronomers capture first close-up of a dying star beyond our galaxy
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A High-Resolution View of the Distant Star WOH G64
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Astronomers Capture Stunning Close-Up of a Dying Star Beyond the Milky Way
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First up-close picture taken of star outside Milky Way
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ESO Telescope Captures Stunning First-Ever Shot Of A Star Outside The Milky Way
The astronomers noted that while other stars, along with WH G64, outside the Milky Way have been observed numerous times, ...
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High-Resolution Image Of A Dying Star Captured Beneath An Egg-Shaped Cocoon Of Dust
To view the star beneath an egg-shaped cocoon of gas and dust, scientists used the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) ...