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 picture of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The star is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, over 160 000 light-years away. The bright oval at the centre of this image is a dusty cocoon that enshrouds the star. A fainter elliptical ring around it could be the inner rim of a dusty torus, but more observations are needed to confirm this feature.
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About the Image
| Id: | eso2417a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 21 November 2024, 14:00 |
| Related releases: | eso2417 |
| Size: | 2500 x 2500 px |
About the Object
| Name: | WOH G64 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Star : Circumstellar Material |
| Category: | Stars |
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