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.

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies, the closest large galaxies to our Milky Way ... the speed at which a galaxy moves towards or away from Earth.

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a ... an astronaut walking on the Moon from Earth. Image source: ESO.org Significance ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky ...

The international team of scientists have captured a collision between two galaxies located about 290 million light-years ...

But all of the stars that we have seen in detail are contained within the roughly 100,000 light-year span of our Milky Way galaxy ... This image shows the location of the star within the Large ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy.