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•50 years ago, astronomers saw the surface of a distant star for the first time
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Powerful ground- and space-based telescopes have since let scientists observe the surfaces of giant stars in the Milky Way in greater detail.
Surface spots are related to convection, bubbles of hot and cold gas rising and sinking in a star’s atmosphere.
In November , scientists reported the first close-up image of a star outside of our galaxy.
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