{"id":28378,"date":"2024-12-01T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28378"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:21:07","slug":"woh-g64-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/woh-g64-star\/","title":{"rendered":"WOH G64 Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About WOH G64 Star:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>massive star that has<\/strong> been imaged with remarkable sharpness by the <strong>European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope Interferometer<\/strong> (ESO\u2019s VLTI).<\/li>\n<li>It dwells in the <strong>Large Magellanic Cloud,<\/strong> a dwarf or satellite galaxy that orbits our Milky Way, which also happens to be one of the closest galaxies to us.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>discovered in the 1970s<\/strong> by Bengt Westerlunds, Olander, and Hedin. Incidentally, the WOH in its name is the acronym for the names of its three discoverers.<\/li>\n<li>The star is believed to be <strong>around 1,60,000 light years away from Earth<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>classified as a red supergiant<\/strong> owing to its size, which is roughly 2,000 times that of the Sun.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The new photo has revealed that WOH G64 is <strong>entering the last stages of its life<\/strong>. In recent years, the star has blown off its outer layer, and it is now surrounded by wreaths and arcs of gas and dust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What are Magellanic Clouds?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are irregular <strong>galaxies that share a gaseous envelope<\/strong> and lie about 22\u00b0 apart in the sky near the south celestial pole.<\/li>\n<li>They are composed of two irregular galaxies, the <strong>Large Magellanic Cloud<\/strong> (LMC) and the <strong>Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)<\/strong>, which orbit the Milky Way once every 1,500 million years and each other once every 900 million years.<\/li>\n<li>These companion galaxies were named for the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew discovered them during the first voyage around the world (1519\u201322).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Magellanic Clouds were formed at about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 13 billion years ago.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are presently captured in orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy and have experienced several tidal encounters with each other and with the Galaxy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They contain <strong>numerous young stars and star clusters<\/strong>, as well as some much older stars.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Supernova?<\/h3>\n<p>A supernova is the name given to the cataclysmic explosion of a massive star. They are the largest explosion that takes place in space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/how-scientists-took-first-zoomed-in-image-of-star-outside-our-galaxy-9697983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How scientists took first zoomed-in image of star outside our galaxy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOH G64 Star is a massive star that has been imaged with remarkable sharpness by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO\u2019s VLTI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}