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Betelgeuse, second brightest star in the constellation Orion, marking the eastern shoulder of the hunter. It has a variable apparent magnitude of about 0.6 and is one of the most luminous stars in the night sky. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star roughly 764 times as large as the Sun.
Mar 17, 2024 · Editors of EarthSky. March 17, 2024. Artist’s concept of the old red supergiant star Betelgeuse as a supernova, or exploding star. Stars like Betelgeuse are thought to dim dramatically...
Betelgeuse appears as a bright orange/red star in the upper left ‘shoulder’ of the constellation Orion. This red supergiant-type star is one of the largest you can see with your naked eye. It is one of the easiest stars to identify in the night sky thanks to its distinctive orange/red color, and position within Orion.
Jun 7, 2023 · 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...
Aug 11, 2022 · Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic Surface Mass Ejection (SME).
May 1, 2023 · May 01, 2023. Article. This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star marking the shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI), NASA and ESA.
Betelgeuse, Alpha Orionis, is the second brightest star in Orion constellation and the ninth brightest star in the sky. It is a supergiant star, distinctly red in colour, located at an approximate distance of 643 light years from Earth. It is an evolved star, one expected to go out as a supernova in a relatively near future.
