According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Independent, this image shows the star WOH G64 is covered with gas and dust. This image shows the final stages of the star’s life, which will soon be destroyed in a huge explosion called a supernova.
The mentioned event is not only the first photo of a star outside the Milky Way, but also the first time that researchers have been able to observe important events of the death of a similar star.
The dying star is located 160,000 light-years from Earth in the neighboring galaxy of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is the first zoomed-in image of a mature star in another galaxy. However, in last year’s research, a newborn star was observed in the same galaxy.
The image, which is somewhat blurry, was captured using the European Southern Observatory telescope located in southern Chile and shows a star in a bright, egg-shaped cocoon of dust called a nebula, which may have been ejected from the star. There is an inconspicuous oval ring beyond the cocoon made of more dust.
Keiichi Ohnaka, an astronomer at Andre Bello University in Chile and the senior author of the study, said in the journal Thursday: “This star is in the last stage of its life before death.” The reason we see these shapes is because the star emits more material in some directions than in others.
According to Onaka, another possible explanation for these anomalies is the gravitational influence of a yet-to-be-discovered companion star. According to Jaco van Loon, an astronomer and one of the authors of the study, from the University of Keele in England, the mass of WOH G64 was estimated to be about 25 to 40 times the mass of the Sun before it began to emit material. It is a type of massive star called a red supergiant.
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