Meanwhile, scientists have captured a historic image of a star on the brink of a supernova, located in the Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers capture the first detailed image of WOH G64, a star 2,000 times bigger than the Sun, as it nears its supernova stage, 160,000 light-years away.

It is among the largest stars on record and is also extremely luminous. It is one of the most massive red supergiants (RSGs) as well. The star lives in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the ...

Scientists capture first-ever detailed image of the dying star WOH G64, located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, revealing its dramatic ejection of gases before a potential ...

Astronomers have for the first time made an enlarged image of a star's death beyond the Milky Way. The Very Large Telescope ...

Remarkably, this star resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way. Russian scientists have ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

The particles that make up dark matter could be created right at the start of a supernova. However, we would need a bit of ...

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.

A recent study in Astronomy & Astrophysics asserted that the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) provided the remarkable sharpness needed to image the star ...

The zoomed-in view was made possible by the European Southern Observatory's powerful Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...