The first ‘zoomed-in’ image of a star outside our galaxy

Scientists said on 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. 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. The image was captured by a team of researchers using a new instrument of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at Chile’s Andres Bello National University, said that “for the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star”.