Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon as it slowly dies.

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) took the first ...

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). Astronomers have taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...