This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument ... A fainter elliptical ring around it could be the inner rim of a dusty torus, but more observations are needed to confirm ...
WOH G64 is a red supergiant star 2,000 times larger ... Gravity instrument of the star and its complex huge, ejected gas/dust torus,” Guinan said in an email, referring to the doughnut shape ...
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 ...