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WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...
This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...