Astronomers capture first-ever close-up of a dying star outside our galaxy, and find it shrouded in mysterious hot dust

[Redaktion]

Astronomers have captured the first detailed image of a dying star beyond the Milky Way, revealing a bizarre, asymmetric cloud of hot dust that defies current stellar models. The find, made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, could rewrite what we know about how massive stars die.

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