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

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 ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

Astronomers capture the first detailed image of WOH G64, a star 2,000 times bigger than the Sun, as it nears its supernova stage, 160,000 light-years away.

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The zoomed-in view was made possible by the European Southern Observatory's powerful Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Astronomers have snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, ...

“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,” astrophysicist Keiichi Ohnaka said, according to the European Southern ...