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PARIS — Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry shot of a dying behemoth 2,000 times bigger than the Sun.Roughly 160,000 light years from Earth, the star WOH G64 sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way.It is a red supergiant, which is the largest type of star in the universe because they expand into space as they near their explosive deaths.
In 2005 and 2007 they used the Very Large Telescope's interferometer, which combined the light from two telescopes, to learn more about the star.But capturing an image remained out of reach until a new instrument called GRAVITY—which combines the light of four telescopes—recently came online.When they compared all their observations, the astronomers were surprised to find that the star had dimmed over the last decade.
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