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Betelgeuse still appears to be recovering from the event. The 400-day pulsation rate that has been tracked by scientists for 200 years is gone, and the star itself is bouncing as it reforms.
Betelgeuse is now so huge now that if it replaced the sun at the center of our solar system, its outer surface would extend past the orbit of Jupiter. Dupree used Hubble to resolve hot spots on the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a never-before-seen phenomenon following a titanic ejection of Betelgeuse’s surface calculated at 400 billion times the mass of a solar flare.
A 2020 image of Betelgeuse as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin. A stellar binary could explain the red supergiant's pattern ...
Stock image of a supernova. Betelgeuse, a huge star 650 light years away, may soon explode into a supernova that would be visible during the day. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS ...
Image: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley ... Astronomers using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new theory as to why the star Betelgeuse is dimming.