ALMA reveals a star’s surface in unprecedented detail

The stars in the sky are so distant that they typically appear as pinpricks even to our most powerful telescopes. Aside from the Sun, only a few nearby, bloated stars appear large enough to capture any features on their surface, however crude. New images released Sept. 11, however, capture one of the most detailed imagesContinue reading “ALMA reveals a star’s surface in unprecedented detail”

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