A closeup look of Betelgeuse a red supergiant 650 light years away from Earth (i.redd.it)

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[-] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 hours ago

Any image of a star (except for our own sun), which is more than just a point of light, is a faulty representation. It's misleading. Share cool stuff, but let's not say things

That's not true. We have higher resolution that a pixel.

[-] Twanquility@feddit.dk 3 points 2 hours ago

You got me! I did not know we had that. Thanks. Which one is that?

(I guess we also have the images of the light surrounding black hole in the center of our galaxy, which is also quite far away, and has quite som pixels. Although it is also larger than a typical star.)