Scientists captured an image of a star beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever
Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...
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See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky Way
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” ...
2 million mph galaxy smash-up seen in unprecedented detail
A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...
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Hubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million ...
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...
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Starlight from another galaxy
The star, a red supergiant called WOH G64, resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away.