"This is useful to uncover leftovers from galactic interactions,constraining the hierarchical process of cosmic structure ...
Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...
It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...
Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying ...
Massive stars, as they near the end of their lives, undergo dramatic transformations. One of the most striking phases occurs ...
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) took the first ...
This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...
WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.