Bad news, space explosion fans: Betelgeuse is behaving strangely again, but it’s probably not about to explode. Betelgeuse, the red giant best known for its starring role as the right shoulder of the ...

Astronomers are attributing the unexpected dimming of Betelgeuse to a gigantic gassy belch, which formed a dust cloud that partially obscured our view of the red supergiant star. The Great Dimming, as ...

Betelgeuse (α Orionis) is the bright reddish star located in the shoulder of the Orion constellation and can be seen by the naked eye in the night sky. From October 2019 to March 2020, Betelgeuse ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mysterious strange dimming seen last year in the huge star Betelgeuse may be from giant ...

High-resolution images suggest the star spewed out so much dust that its brightness dropped by two-thirds in 2020. Last year’s dramatic dimming of the star Betelgeuse — familiar to many as the ‘right ...

The mysterious dimming of a famous, bright star may have been solved — and the cause is literally explosive. At a press conference for the 239th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on ...

When Betelgeuse, a bright orange star in the constellation of Orion, became visibly darker in late 2019 and early 2020, the astronomy community was puzzled. A team of astronomers have now published ...