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But all of that extra attention has led to another remarkable find. As it turns out, Betegeuse isn’t alone—it actually has a ...
Led by NASA Ames scientist Steve Howell, the team used ‘Alopeke, a speckle imager named after the Hawaiian word for fox, to ...
Revealed by advanced imaging, the long-sought "Betelbuddy" is much smaller and fainter than Betelgeuse and orbits within the supergiant’s atmosphere.
NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...
The companion star, if it exists, is roughly the same mass of our Sun, and may explain Betelgeuse’s long secondary period (LSP)—a 2,170-day (6-year) cycle during which the supergiant dims and ...
Astronomers are trying to understand red dwarf stars because a) they are the most common kind of star, and b) because of that they are intimately linked to the history of star formation in the galaxy.