That’s not the case with a recent dying star, though. In fact, scientists were able to get front-row seats to the death of this celestial giant. Located around 120 million light-years from the ...

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory in Chile have captured a unique image of the star WOH G64, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years from Earth.

The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a process similar to the fate of Earth billions of years from now.

Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile, described this milestone: “We have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own ...