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.
Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) took the first close ...
A recent capture by the powerful European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has ...
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Dying stellar giant WOH G64: A glimpse beyond our galaxyAstronomers from the European Southern Observatory in Chile have captured a unique image of the star WOH G64, located in the ...
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A High-Resolution View of the Distant Star WOH G64A recent study in Astronomy & Astrophysics asserted that the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...
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