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Patch-up telescope sees first detail of star beyond galaxy
T hey trained the two telescopes on a red supergiant named WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy. WOH is about 2,000 times larger than the sun and is 163,000 light years away. Keiichi Ohnaka of the Max Planck Radio-Astronomy Institute in Bonn led the research, which is described...
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Violent Explosion Is Most Distant Object Ever Seen
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Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has been detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed. The light from the distant explosion, called a gamma-ray burst, first reached Earth on April 23 and was detected by NASA's Swift satellite. Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be associated with the formation ...
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- News Source: NewKerala | about 1 year agoScientists have detected a dust torus around an individual dying supergiant star in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. T his discovery was made by a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn...
- News Source: NewKerala | about 1 year agoT hey trained the two telescopes on a red supergiant named WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring galaxy. WOH is about 2,000 times larger than the sun and is 163,000 light years away. Keiichi Ohnaka of the Max Planck Radio-Astronomy...
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