This Star Is Millions of Light-Years Away — And We Just Got a Close-Up - video Dailymotion

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For millennia humankind has peered into the night sky looking at stars far beyond the confines of our solar system. Now, in a first for our species, astronomers have captured an image of a star beyond our galaxy in the highest, up-close resolution ever.

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00:00for millennia humankind has peered into the night sky looking at stars far beyond the confines of

00:09our solar system now in a first for our species astronomers have captured an image of a star

00:14beyond our galaxy in the highest up close resolution ever the light emitted from the

00:19star in this photo is some 160 000 years old as the star itself resides 160 000 light years away

00:26it's named woh g64 and it's located in the large magellanic cloud which is a dwarf galaxy orbiting

00:33our own milky way the celestial object itself is classified as a red supergiant star meaning that

00:38while it's much cooler than our sun it's wildly much much larger experts say it is upwards of 2 000

00:44times the radius of our system's central star in fact that is one of the reasons they chose to image

00:49this one its size making it a much easier target for telescopes experts note the egg-shaped cocoon

00:55which surrounds the star certainly not business as usual for healthy ones with astrophysicist kei

00:59chionaka saying about it we are excited because this may be related to the drastic ejection of

01:04material from the dying star before a supernova explosion experts are hailing the image as a

01:10landmark achievement adding that this star is one of the most extreme of its kind

This Star Is Millions of Light-Years Away — And We Just Got a Close-Up

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