List of stars with resolved images

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 directly imaged, has an angular diameter of only 50 milliarcseconds (mas).[1]

List
List of stars with resolved images
Star Image Diameter Distance
(ly)		 First imager Year Notes
Angular (mas) Geometric (Sun = 1)
Sun 2000000 1 0.0000158 Louis Fizeau and Léon Foucault[2] 1845
Altair
α Aql		 3.2 1.66±0.01 (polar)
2.02±0.01 (equator)		 16.77±0.08 CHARA array – MIRC[3] 2006
Rasalhague
α Oph A		 1.62±0.03 2.39±0.01 (polar)
2.87±0.02 (equator)		 48.6±0.8 CHARA array – MIRC[4] 2006
Alderamin
α Cep		 1.35±0.02 (polar)
1.75±0.03 (equator)		 2.20±0.04 (polar)
2.74±0.04 (equator)		 48.8±0.36 CHARA array – MIRC[4] 2006
Caph
β Cas		 1.70±0.04 3.1±0.1 (polar)
3.8±0.1 (equator)		 54.7±0.3 CHARA array – MIRC[5] 2007
Regulus
α Leo Aa		 1.24±0.02 3.2±0.1 (polar)
4.2±0.1 (equator)		 79.3±0.7 CHARA array – MIRC[5] 2008
Algol
β Per Aa1
0.88±0.05 4.13 93±2 CHARA array – MIRC[6] 2006 stationary object in the animation
β Per Aa2 1.12±0.07 3 orbiting object in the animation
β Per Ab 0.56±0.10 0.9 Observed radius of Algol Ab is an instrumental artifact, caused by bandwidth smearing.
Actual radius is 1.73 ± 0.33 R☉.
Alkaid
η UMa		 0.834±0.060 2.86±0.21 103.9±0.8 CHARA array[7] 2012
Markab
α Peg		 1.052±0.066 4.62±0.29 133±1 CHARA array[7] 2012
Elnath
β Tau		 1.09±0.076 4.82±0.34 134±2 CHARA array[7] 2012
ζ And Aa 2.502±0.008 15.0±0.8 (polar) 189±3 CFHT[8][9] 1996 First direct imaging of starspots on a star outside the Solar System.
R Dor 57±5 370±50 204±9 New Technology Telescope[10] 1993 2nd largest known star by apparent diameter in Earth's sky, after the Sun.
Mira
ο Cet A		 50 up to 700 420 Hubble – FOC[11] 1997
T Lep 5.8
15 for molecular layer		 100 500 Very Large Telescope – VLTI[12]/AMBER[13] 2009
π1 Gru 18.37 694 530 Very Large Telescope – VLTI/PIONIER[14] 2017 First directly observed granulation patterns on a star's surface outside the Solar System.
Antares
α Sco A		 41.3±0.1 700 620 Very Large Telescope – VLTI/AMBER[15] 2017
Betelgeuse
α Ori		 50 630 643±146 Hubble – GHRS[1] 1995 First star with a resolved image outside the Solar System.
Sheliak
β Lyr Aa		 0.46 6 960±50 CHARA array – MIRC[16] 2007 Both Aa1 and Aa2 are visible in the animation.
θ1 Ori C 0.2 10.6±1.5 1400 Very Large Telescope – AMBER[17] 2009 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[18] 2016
Almaaz
ε Aur A		 2.27 3.7±0.7 ca. 2000 CHARA array – MIRC[19] 2009 Supergiant with an eclipsing companion surrounded by a massive, opaque debris disk
RW Cephei 2.45 900–1760 11000+4600
−2600–22000+5200
−3300		 CHARA array – MIRC-X and MYSTIC[20] 2022 Hypergiant star currently undergoing a great dimming event
HR 5171 Aa 4.1±0.8 1575±400 11740±1630 Very Large Telescope – VLTI/PIONIER[21] 2014 Eclipsing and potential contact binary yellow hypergiant

See also

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