Scientists expect Betelgeuse to go supernova in a violent explosion within 100,000 years. This image made with the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA on Aug. 10, 2020, shows the star ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in Earth’s night sky, so its dimming – which lasted for a few months – was noticeable through observatories and backyard telescopes alike. Recovering ...

As Betelgeuse burns through fuel in its core, it has swollen to massive proportions, becoming a red supergiant. The massive star is 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) in diameter.

The Hubble Space Telescope may have solved the mystery of the curiously dimming star Betelgeuse, according to new research. Hubble spies the culprit behind Betelgeuse star's dimming. And it may be ...

Ground-based telescopes cannot see through dust and gas in the cosmos, which requires infrared vision. That's because Earth's atmosphere blocks infrared radiation as well as X-rays, gamma rays and ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest ... If you train a telescope on Betelgeuse for weeks, you'll see it dimming, ... a companion star that plows through dust clouds enveloping Betelgeuse.

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 ...

"We've never before seen a huge mass ejection of the surface of a star. We are left with something going on that we don't completely understand," an astronomer said.