The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...
"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...
The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...
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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 ...
However, future devices such as GRAVITY+ promise a remedy and a sustained view of the dying star. The close-up image is now presented in Astronomy and Astrophysics.