In it, the “behemoth” star appears to puff out gas and dust, a critical final step before exploding in a supernova ... Researchers took the picture using the European Southern Observatory ...

The star — known as WOH G64 — is located 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

Tycho had observed a powerful explosion, which we now term “supernova,” they write ... (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of ... of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion." The research team noticed that the ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines ... Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! "This galaxy is a multi ...