Antares: Astronomers Snap Most Detailed Image of Star That’s Not the Sun0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2017
An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t the Sun — the red supergiant star Antares. The team has also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in the extended atmosphere of Antares.