The Hubble Space Telescope may have solved the mystery of the curiously dimming star Betelgeuse, according to new research. And to add even more intrigue to the story, the star appears to be dimming ...

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 giant star Betelgeuse, which was thought to be on the brink of a supernova explosion, is still revealing more secrets, even after the Hubble Space Telescope helped solve the mystery of why it ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Betelgeuse, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on August 13, 2020. Image: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin The bright star Betelgeuse, a prominent member of the Orion ...

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 […] ...