Science: A recent study suggests that the enigmatic dimming and brightening patterns of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star on ...

Betelgeuse, one of the most luminous stars visible from Earth, continues to surprise astronomers. The red giant’s brightness ...

With some of its light blocked comes a scarce opportunity for astronomers with millisecond accuracy to map the shape and surface of Betelgeuse. That’s because its light will be relatively dim.

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 ...

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 ...