This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up ...

The star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI).This is the first close-up picture of a star outside our ...

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

Researchers took the picture using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The unprecedented image, combined with ...

160,000 light-years away, a star 2,000 times the mass of the Sun is dying. Now, that star has been imaged as never before—extremely up-close—revealing details of the star’s activity and ...

The researchers looked at star WOH G64, located 160,000 light-years away, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer. The image shows the main bulk of the star ...

(2024) A gorgeous new set of images shows the striking sight of nearby galaxies, captured by a telescope called the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at the European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

The zoomed-in view was made possible by the European Southern Observatory's powerful Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), located in Chile's Atacama Desert. Researchers noted that this was ...

Recent observations with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer were the most detailed ever taken of this dying star. The groundbreaking observations reveal ...

The European Southern Observatory today released the image of WOH G64, a red supergiant star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. The image is ...

The image was captured by a team of researchers using a new instrument of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at Chile's Andres Bello ...