Star captured in detail outside Milky Way for 1st time(1/2)

Photo released on Nov. 22, 2024 shows an artist’s reconstruction of the star WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy imaged in close-up. It is located at a staggering distance of over 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (Photo/Agencies)

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have captured a zoomed-in image of the dust-enshrouded red supergiant star WOH G64.

This image, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), shows the red supergiant WOH G64, Nov. 22, 2024. (Photo/Agencies)