Extreme object
WOH G64
WOH G64 is a star 163 000 light-years away, weighing 20.0 Suns.
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
An extreme red supergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 1,540 times the Sun's radius. In the Sun's place, it would engulf the orbit of Jupiter.
Key facts
- Kind
- Star
- Distance
- 163 000 light-years
- Mass
- 20.00 Suns
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; the star itself is a point at this scale — the kind of thing, not this exact one.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOH_G64 (infobox: position, distance, V magnitude 17.7 to 18.8 and the mass of component A; the opening paragraph for the radius of 1,540 Suns and the Jupiter comparison; read 2026-11-05)
This page is built from the same records and words as the map's card, and carries no live numbers.