March 17 (UPI) -- A dying red giant star is playing its final song some 3,400 light-years from Earth. And thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a collection of 66 radio telescopes in the Chilean desert, astronomers have a front row seat.
"What we are seeing in splendid detail with these observations is the final act of a dying red giant star, as it sheds most of its gaseous bulk in a strong, outflowing wind," Mark Morris, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, said in a news release.