A stronomers have captured the first-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Using the Very Large Telescope ...

The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). WOH G64 is located a staggering 160,000 light-years away in the ...

First catalogued in 1981, WOH G64 sits some 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It is one of the biggest red supergiants ...

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 ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...