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.
The European Extremely Large Telescope will produce images 15 times sharper than those of the Hubble Telescope, and collect light faster than any other optical or infrared telescope.
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 ...