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.

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

Astronomers have captured the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, taken during a dramatic moment near the end ...

Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

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 ...

This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up ...

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

The star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI).This is the first close-up picture of a star outside our ...

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...