First zoomed-in picture of an extragalactic star | ESO News - YouTube - astrophysics

WOH64 is a star on its way to becoming a supernova.It is more than 160,000 light years from Earth.The star is surrounded by a giant cocoon of gas and dust,showing that its end is near.The photo was taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer.The star is 200 times as large as the Sun.