The first 'zoomed-in' image of a star outside our galaxy

Paris (AFP) Nov 21, 2024

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry shot of a dying behemoth 2,000 times bigger than the Sun. Roughly 160,000 light years from Earth, the star WOH G64 sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way. It is a red supergiant, which is the largest type of star in the univer