The first image of the surface of a Sun-like star has been captured.It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body.
Until now, telescopes have only been powerful enough to zoom in on the Sun or on rare giant stars outside of the Solar System.
But researchers, writing in the journal Science, say they got around this problem by combining the light from four separate telescopes.
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