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For the First Time, Astronomers Capture Stunning Close-Up of Giant Star Beyond the Milky Way
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 ...
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Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a dying star outside of Milky Way
The star is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Known as WOH G64, the star is 2,000 times larger than the Sun and classified ...
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Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode
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 ...
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Image of the star WOH G64 taken by the VLTI (IMAGE)
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 ...