A magnified image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own has been captured by astronomers thanks to the impressive clarity provided by the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) telescope. The research was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. While astronomers have taken magnified images of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, revealing their properties, there are countless other stars in other galaxies, but so far away that observing even one in detail has until now been extremely difficult. The star WOH G64 is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way. It was recorded ejecting gas and dust in the final stages before going supernova. Astronomers knew about this star and called it a “giant star” because it is about 2,000 times the size of our Sun. However, to get the desired image of it, they had to wait for the development of one […]
Source: News Beast
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