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First close-up image of a star outside Milky Way shows supergiant in ‘cocoon’

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The star, called WOH G64 , is located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

It is thought to be the largest star in the galaxy, classified as a red supergiant and about 2,000 times the mass of the sun.

The images reveal the star is undergoing a dramatic transition and suggest that in the past decade it has blown off its outer layer, leaving it surrounded by an egg-shaped cocoon.

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