An interdisciplinary team centered around a Jena astrophysicist utilized observations from antiquity to prove that Betelgeuse—the bright red giant star in the upper left of the constellation Orion—was ...

Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows that bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse "blew its top" in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic Surface Mass ...

The red supergiant Betelgeuse, a colossal star in the Orion constellation, experienced a massive stellar eruption — the likes of which have never been seen before, according to astronomers. Betelgeuse ...

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, ...

Astronomers are still making new discoveries about the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which experienced a mysterious “dimming” a few years ago. That dimming was eventually attributed to a cold spot ...

Over the last couple of years, Ars has dedicated a fair number of electrons to our local red supergiant, Betelgeuse. The massive star went through an odd uneven dimming, leaving the astronomy ...

When Betelgeuse mysteriously dimmed in late 2019 by over a magnitude, astronomers around the world rushed to turn their telescopes to the red giant star on Orion’s shoulder. Little did they know that ...

The star Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. But when viewed close up, astronomers know it as ...