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But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star in a tight orbit around Betelgeuse, resolving a long-standing ...
Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...
Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...
The Gemini South telescope in Chile has been used by astronomers to detect a planet being devoured by its dying host star, a process similar to the fate of Earth billions of years from now. Credits: ...
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.
Led by NASA Ames scientist Steve Howell, the team used ‘Alopeke, a speckle imager named after the Hawaiian word for fox, to ...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
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 ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...