Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange ...

New observations by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, ...

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which shines intensely in the constellation of Orion, has always intrigued astronomers with its mysterious brightness variations. For centuries, ...

Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

Astronomers have finally verified the existence of a companion star around the red supergiant Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars which are visible to the naked eye in the sky. Researchers from ...

After decades of speculation, NASA’s Chandra and Hubble telescopes confirmed that Betelgeuse isn’t alone—its mysterious companion star finally steps out of the cosmic shadows, upending our view of ...

With the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have identified the cause of Betelgeuse's 2019 dimming: an unfathomably large Surface Mass ...

Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, ...

This illustration plots changes in the brightness of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, following the titanic mass ejection of a large piece of its visible surface. The escaping material cooled […] ...

The dimming of Betelgeuse seen at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 explained — the red giant star “sneezed.” Betelgeuse dimmed in the final few months of 2019, perplexing both professional and ...