Close-up of a dying heavyweight
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 14:42
in Astronomy & Space
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching near Munich have for the first time taken a close-up of an individual dying supergiant star in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. By combining two 8.2-m telescopes in Chile as an interferometer, they achieved the resolving power of a 60-m telescope.