{"id":66075,"date":"2024-11-25T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9f1c48bb-3b50-4f7a-af67-16309884efe2"},"modified":"2024-11-25T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:39:38","slug":"astronomers-have-captured-the-first-ever-close-up-image-of-a-star-beyond-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/astronomers-have-captured-the-first-ever-close-up-image-of-a-star-beyond-our-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have captured the first ever close-up image of a star beyond our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Iain Todd\n <\/p>

Published: Monday, 25 November 2024 at 11:55 AM<\/p>

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Astronomers have, for the first time ever, captured a close-up image of a star beyond our home Galaxy.<\/p>

The star, known as WOH G64, is located 160,000 lightyears away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.<\/p>

Zoomed-in images of stars within our Galaxy have been captured before, but this marks the first ever detailed image of a star in a different galaxy.<\/p>

Astronomers have known about WOH G64 for decades, and it’s referred to as the \u2018behemoth star\u2019.<\/p>

It’s about 2,000 times the mass of our Sun and is a type of star known as a red supergiant.<\/p>