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Betelgeuse may have an unseen companion star called “Betelbuddy” that could explain its strange behavior
To give a sense of scale, if Betelgeuse were placed at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend beyond the ...
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Betelgeuse Is About To Be Eclipsed In A Rare ‘Ring Of Fire’
However, while the occultation of a star by an asteroid is typically a millisecond event, Betelgeuse is enormous—about 750 times the sun’s diameter. So, over about 12 seconds, the asteroid ...
The Orion constellation star Betelgeuse might actually be two separate stellar bodies, a shocking new study has suggested
Co-author Meridith Joyce and her team have proposed an out-of-this-world theory: Betelgeuse may have a partner, affectionately dubbed "Betelbuddy." This sun-sized companion star could be ...
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Hubble Space Telescope images explain why Betelgeuse was fading and how the monster star is not going to explode — just yet
New images created by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Betelgeuse — one of the brightest stars visible from Earth — wasn’t dimming because it was about to explode, but because there was ...