Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of ...

PHOENIX — Like a motorboat doing doughnuts in a lake, Betelgeuse’s companion star leaves a wake in the giant star’s atmosphere. Signs of the smaller star’s trail around the red supergiant are the best ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have uncovered direct evidence that the red supergiant ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...

NASA’s Hubble data shows a wake of dense gas around Betelgeuse, offering the clearest proof yet of a long-suspected companion ...

A red supergiant star has expelled the largest cloud of gas and dust ever seen in the process of being blown off one of these stellar behemoths. The vast size and intricacy of the cloud suggests that ...

Using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers have tracked the ...

In the vast expanse of the night sky, Betelgeuse has long captivated astronomers and stargazers alike with its unique characteristics. Recent research has unveiled a ...

The red supergiant star is about 2,000 times larger than the sun. Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European Southern ...

160,000 light-years away, a star 2,000 times the size of the Sun is dying. Now, that star has been imaged as never before—extremely up-close—revealing details of the star’s activity and surrounding ...