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Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time (image, video)

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Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time.

WOH G64 is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) The red supergiant star is 2,000 times the size of the sun.

The VLTI was able to see this distant star in such detail that it also revealed its surrounding cocoon of gas and dust.

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English

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