Astronomers have snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.

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Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, ...

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

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery using Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, identifying three mysterious ...