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The red supergiant star Betelgeuse has been in the news and continues to perplex the astronomical world with its rapid dimming. At the present time, Betelgeuse, which is some 650 light years from us, ...

An illustration depicts changes in Betelgeuse's brightness following a massive 2019 explosion observed by astronomers. Credit: NASA / ESA / Elizabeth Wheatley (STScI) Just like the mischievous Tim ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Observations of the star Betelgeuse taken by the ESO’s Very ...

When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge, ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume, spanning a radius around 700 times that of the sun. Despite only being ...

The bright, red star Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, has entered the twilight of its life. Like many stars of a similar size that reach the end of the road, Betelgeuse is slowly shedding its ...

Betelgeuse may have quite the appetite. A team of astronomers led by Manos Chatzopoulos of Louisiana State University have offered up a juicy new theory about the red supergiant star: It may have ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and also one of the largest stars known to astronomers. Forming the left shoulder of the constellation Orion, Betelgeuse is a so-called red ...

Betelgeuse, a bright star visible in the Orion constellation in the night sky, has beguiled and puzzled space scientists since late 2019. The red giant, a star in the last stages of its life, ...

Betelgeuse is one of the closest massive stars to Earth. It’s also an old star, and it has reached the stage when it glows a dull red and expands, with the hot core only having a tenuous gravitational ...