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Template:Short description The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun, observed from Earth, stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image. For example, Betelgeuse, the first star other than the Sun to be resolved, has an angular diameter of only 50 milliarcseconds (mas).[1]
List
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| Star | Image | Diameter | Distance (ly) |
First imager | Year | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angular (mas) | Geometric (Template:Solar radius) | ||||||
| Sun | File:Sun white.jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Louis Fizeau and Léon Foucault[2] | Script error: No such module "val". | |
| Altair α Aql |
File:Altair PR image6 (white).jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". (polar) Script error: No such module "val". (equator) |
Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[3] | Script error: No such module "val". | |
| Rasalhague α Oph A |
Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". (polar) Script error: No such module "val". (equator) |
Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[4] | Script error: No such module "val". | ||
| Alderamin α Cep |
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Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[4] | Script error: No such module "val". | ||
| Caph β Cas |
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Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[5] | Script error: No such module "val". | ||
| Regulus α Leo Aa |
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Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[5] | Script error: No such module "val". | ||
| Algol β Per Aa1 |
File:Algol AB movie imaged with the CHARA interferometer - labeled.gif File:Algol triple star system imaged with the CHARA interferometer.jpg |
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| β Per Aa2 | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | orbiting object in the animation | ||||
| β Per Ab | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Observed radius of Algol Ab is an instrumental artifact, caused by bandwidth smearing. Actual radius is 1.73 ± 0.33 [[Solar radius|Template:Solar radius]]. | ||||
| Alkaid η UMa |
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| σ Gem A | 2.425 | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array/MIRC[8] | 2011 | The star contains starspots on its surface | |
| Markab α Peg |
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| Elnath β Tau |
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| ζ And Aa | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". (polar) | Script error: No such module "val". | CFHT[9][10] | Script error: No such module "val". | First direct imaging of starspots on a star outside the Solar System. | |
| R Dor | Template:CSS image crop | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | New Technology Telescope[11] | Script error: No such module "val". | 2nd largest known star by apparent diameter in Earth's sky, after the Sun. |
| Mira ο Cet A |
File:Mira 1997.jpg | Script error: No such module "val".–34.9[12] | 332–402[12] | Script error: No such module "val". | Hubble – FOC[13] | Script error: No such module "val". | |
| Polaris α UMi Aa |
Template:Cssic | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array[14] | 2024 | |
| T Lep | File:T Leporis.jpg | 5.8 15 for molecular layer |
Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Very Large Telescope – VLTI[15]/AMBER[16] | Script error: No such module "val". | |
| π1 Gru | File:The surface of the red giant star π1 Gruis from PIONIER on the VLT.jpg | 21[17] | Script error: No such module "val".[17] | Script error: No such module "val".[17] | Very Large Telescope – VLTI/PIONIER[18] | Script error: No such module "val". | First directly observed granulation patterns on a star's surface outside the Solar System. |
| Antares α Sco A |
File:VLTI reconstructed view of the surface of Antares.jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | 680[19] | 553[20] | Very Large Telescope – VLTI/AMBER[21][22] | Script error: No such module "val". | |
| R Car | Script error: No such module "val".–Script error: No such module "val". | 400–540 | Script error: No such module "val". | Very Large Telescope – PIONIER[23] | 2014Template:Efn | ||
| Betelgeuse α Ori |
File:Betelgeuse captured by ALMA.jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val".[24]–764[25] | Script error: No such module "val". | Hubble – GHRS[1] | Script error: No such module "val". | First star with a resolved image outside the Solar System. |
| Sheliak β Lyr Aa |
File:Beta Lyrae - CHARA.gif | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[26] | Script error: No such module "val". | Both Aa1 and Aa2 are visible in the animation. |
| R Scl | File:R Sculptoris A red giant sheds its skin.jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Very Large Telescope – AMBER[27] | 2017 | |
| θ1 Ori C | File:GRAVITY discovers new double star in Orion Trapezium Cluster.jpg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Very Large Telescope – AMBER[28] | Script error: No such module "val". | In the image, the right inset is θ1 Ori C and the left inset is θ1 Ori F. |
| θ1 Ori F | Very Large Telescope – VLTI/GRAVITY[29] | 2016 | |||||
| ε Aur | Script error: No such module "val".[30] | Script error: No such module "val".[30] | Script error: No such module "val".[30] | CHARA array – MIRC[31] | Script error: No such module "val". | Supergiant with an eclipsing companion surrounded by a massive, opaque debris disk | |
| AZ Cyg | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC[32] | 2011Template:Efn | ||
| SU Per | Script error: No such module "val".[33] | Script error: No such module "val".–Script error: No such module "val".[34] | Template:CvtScript error: No such module "Su".[35] | CHARA array[33] | 2015 | ||
| ρ Cas | Template:Cssic | Script error: No such module "val". | 564-700 | Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array[36] | 2024 | |
| RW Cep | File:RW Cep CHARA array.png | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val". [37] | Script error: No such module "val".–Script error: No such module "val". | CHARA array – MIRC-X and MYSTIC[38] | Script error: No such module "val". | Hypergiant star currently undergoing a great dimming event |
| HR 5171 Aa | File:HR 5171 A potw1740a.png | Script error: No such module "val". | Script error: No such module "val".[39] | Script error: No such module "val". | Very Large Telescope – VLTI/PIONIER[40] | Script error: No such module "val". | Eclipsing and potential contact binary yellow hypergiant |
| WOH G64 | File:WOH G64 VLTI.jpg | 800[41] | ca. 160 000 | Very Large Telescope – VLTI/GRAVITY[42] | 2024 | Star is in the Large Magellanic Cloud. First resolved image of star outside of the Milky Way. | |
See also
- Doppler imaging which produces maps of the surfaces of stars
- Zeeman–Doppler imaging which maps the magnetic fields of stars
- List of directly imaged exoplanets
- Angular resolution
- Angular diameter
- List of nearest stars
Notes
References
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