Image of the star WOH G64 taken by the VLTI
eso_eso2417a November 21st, 2024
Credit: ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.
This is an image of the star WOH G64, taken by the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI). This is the first close-up picture of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The star is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, over 160 000 light-years away. The bright oval at the centre of this image is a dusty cocoon that enshrouds the star. A fainter elliptical ring around it could be the inner rim of a dusty torus, but more observations are needed to confirm this feature.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2417a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
- ID
- eso2417a
- Subject Category
- C.3.7
- Subject Name
- WOH G64
- Credits
- ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.
- Release Date
- 2024-11-21T14:00:00
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- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2417a/
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- Observation
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- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
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- Reference Dimension
- 3000.0, 2000.0
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- FITS Header
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- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2417a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2417a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-11-13T15:37:32+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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