WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
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 discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme ...
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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.
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 ...