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No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
Scientists think the star may be on the verge of explosion.
That means the star has likely already died, Jacco van Loon, reader in astrophysics at Keele University in the United Kingdom, told Mashable. The first detailed image of an extragalactic star, left, is presented next to an artist's interpretation of what's going on in the dusty cocoon around it.Credit: ESO / K. Ohnaka et al., L. Calçada "We are excited because this may be related to the drastic ejection of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion," said Keiichi Ohnaka, lead author from the Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile, in a statement.
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