These images, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, show the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse during its unprecedented dimming, which happened in late 2019 ...

The Great Dimming Event (GDE) of Betelgeuse, where the red supergiant star visibly faded in late ... [+] 2019 and early 2020. Betelgeuse was already known to be a variable star that waxed and ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky in the constellation Orion, has long puzzled astronomers due to its history ...

The faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye in the night sky, from a very dark site, is about magnitude 6.) "In about 2016 there was a sharp dimming [down to magnitude 11], and then ...

NASA's STEREO spacecraft -- with measurements shown in red -- stepped in to observe Betelgeuse from its unique vantage point, revealing unexpected dimming by the star. The 2018 data point from ...

A Betelbuddy? Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion, is a giant star whose strange dimming has ...

According to NASA, it's large explosion of a star that ... 2Fbetelgeuse-dimming-1.5407038 Supernovas don't happen every day. According to Mortillaro, an explosion of Betelgeuse could happen ...

New images created by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Betelgeuse — one of the brightest stars visible from Earth — wasn’t dimming because it was about to explode, but because there was ...

Betelgeuse, the left “shoulder” of Orion, has always been a star of intrigue. Look at it long enough (and we mean generations-long), and you’ll notice its strange pattern: dimming and ...