For the first time, scientists have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in picture of a star in another galaxy. A study on star known as WOH G64 was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Key points
- WOH G64, seems to be cloaked in an egg-shaped cocoon and is located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies that orbit the Milky Way.
- Earlier also, researchers had taken pictures of stars in other galaxies, but they were shown as little more than points of light.
- However, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), they have now revealed a detailed image of WOH G64.
- WOH G64 is believed to be the largest galaxy in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star is around 2,000 times the diameter of the Sun.
- The new photo has revealed that WOH G64 is entering the last stages of its life. In recent years, the star has blown off its outer layer, and it is now surrounded by wreaths and arcs of gas and dust.
