WOH G64, also known as the "behemoth star," is a red supergiant star located outside of the Milky Way in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This photo is the first close-up image of such a distant star ...

An artist's impression of the behemoth star The researchers proposed two possible reasons for the unusual shape: It could be due to how the material was shed off the star or because there is a ...

commonly known as the "behemoth star." It resides around 160,000 light-years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a satellite dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. WOH G64 is around ...

taken during a dramatic moment near the end of the star’s life. In it, the “behemoth” star appears to puff out gas and dust, a critical final step before exploding in a supernova.

The new close-up image, captured by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, shows the red supergiant WOH G64, commonly known as the "behemoth ...

is actually the most luminous red supergiant star in that galaxy, a behemoth at least 2,000 times bigger than the sun. Image An artist’s reconstruction of WOH G64. The star, first observed in ...

taken during a dramatic moment near the end of the star’s life. In it, the “behemoth” star appears to puff out gas and dust, a critical final step before exploding in a supernova.