Not a lot of information, just the photo and a paragraph blurb beneath it.
What I'm wondering is why the alleged "first" picture of this kind is of a star 160,000 light years away. There are hundreds of millions of stars in that distance range from us. I suppose there may be a reasonable explanation having to do with optimal visibility or something, but my intuition is completely failing here.
optimalsolver 52 seconds ago [-]
What would the Milky Way look like on a planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud?
deafpolygon 4 minutes ago [-]
Over that way lies Mordor, under the all-seeing gaze of Sauron.
Rendered at 11:11:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
What I'm wondering is why the alleged "first" picture of this kind is of a star 160,000 light years away. There are hundreds of millions of stars in that distance range from us. I suppose there may be a reasonable explanation having to do with optimal visibility or something, but my intuition is completely failing here.