Journey to Close-up View of Red Supergiant Star WOH G64 in LMC Galaxy | ESO
This video zooms into WOH G64, a dying star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160,000 light-years from us. This is the first close-up image of a star outside our galaxy.
The images shown here were taken with a range of telescopes at different times. They have been blended together to create this zoom.
At the end of the video, we see an image of the dusty cocoon that surrounds the star, taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and an artist’s impression that illustrates this.
Astronomers have known about this star for decades and have appropriately dubbed it the ‘behemoth star’. With a size roughly 2,000 times that of our Sun, WOH G64 is classified as a red supergiant.
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis
Written by: Hanna Huysegoms, Alejandro Izquierdo Lopez
Footage and Photos: ESO / Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser, Cristoph Malin, Babak Tafreshi, Keiichi Ohnaka et al
Scientific Consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova
Release Date: Nov. 21, 2024
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