Most detailed star image yet

[N1 (Mirko)]

...other than of the Sun

https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/eso1726a/?lang

[tileys]

That is so cool - makes you go a bit boss-eyed looking at it though. Hopefully someone on the team wont say - oops - sorry guys - it was just out of focus

[xelasnave]

I find the band interesting.
I wonder how it lines up with rotation. And is it because of temp variation or magnetic effect or what.

Alex

[N1 (Mirko)]

Yes Alex there is some debate around that, and it's not entirely clear what's happening there - "quickly moving gas clumps"?!:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/08/m...ected-mystery/

[Visionary (David)]

I had thought that Stars could be no more than pin-points of light?

[Bendy (Ben)]

Hi David

Just saw this wiki page which lists stars that have been resolvable beyond point source, it turns out that there is a few:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...esolved_images