Astronomers capture first close-up of a dying star beyond our galaxy
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Scientists have captured the first detailed close-up image of a dying red supergiant star outside the Milky Way. The star, WOH G64, located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is expelling gas and dust as it approaches supernova, encased in an egg-shaped cocoon of ejected material and has dimmed significantly over the past decade.
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