To view the star beneath an egg-shaped cocoon of gas and dust, scientists used the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) ...

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Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy was seen as it was just 700 ...

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There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever close-up image of WOH G64, a colossal red supergiant star located 160,000 ...

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If WOH G64 was placed at the center of our Solar System, it would extend to the orbit of Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun.

Astronomers have snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.

WOH G64 is a red supergiant 160,000 light-years from Earth demonstrating erratic behavior over the last decade ...

Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared ... Sausage kinematic structure in the Milky Way's halo. Aiming to shed more light on stellar populations ...