Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

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“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” ...

The first ever close-up picture of a star outside of our galaxy has shown that it is wrapped in a strange structure. The image shows a star named WOH G64 that is surrounded by gas and dust. The ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

During this time, however, a picture of the star did not yet exist. According to scientists, about 24 zoomed-in images of stars in the Milky Way have been taken, but images of stars in other galaxies ...