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The following is a list of stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun stars are tremendously small in apparent size requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment to image. For example the first star other than the Sun to be directly imaged was Betelgeuse. It has an angular diameter of only 50 milliarcseconds (mas).

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