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imaged [im-ij]

List of directly imaged stars

The following is a list of stars which have been directly imaged. Aside from the Sun, stars are tremendously small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high resolution techniques to image. An incomplete list is as follows:

Star Angular Size Linear Size Imager
The Sun 30 arcminutes 1 Solar Radii Various solar telescopes
Altair 3.2 millarcseconds 1.7 Solar Radii MIRC instrument on the CHARA Array
Betelgeuse 50 millarcseconds 630 Solar Radii Aperture Masking Interferometry, Hubble

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