The first 'zoomed-in' image of a star outside our galaxyPARIS, Nov 21, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - 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. Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at Chile's Andres Bello National University, said that "for the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star". The image shows the bright if blurry yellow star enclosed inside an oval outline. In 2005 and 2007 they used the Very Large Telescope's interferometer, which combined the light from two telescopes, to learn more about the star.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha November 21, 2024 13:49 UTC