Juan Carlos Muñoz on Nostr: 1/ Even though stars are huge, they're so far away they mostly look like points to ...

1/ Even though stars are huge, they're so far away they mostly look like points to us. While we've been able to resolve details in a handful of stars within the Milky Way, our home galaxy, we now have a close-up view of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417/

📷 ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

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