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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

1/ Even though stars are huge, they're so far away they mostly look like points to us. While we've been able to resolve details in a handful of stars within the Milky Way, our home galaxy, we now have a close-up view of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own, 160 000 lightyears away.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/

📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #space #science

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• The image shows a bright oval structure, surrounded by a fainter larger ring, against a black background. The oval corresponds to the light coming from the star WOH G64 and the dust cocoon around it, while the ring may be the inner side of a torus of dust around them. (remote)