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Betelgeuse, also known as Bal Juice, is a colossal red supergiant in the constellation Orion, roughly 600 light-years away from Earth. With a luminosity around 100,000 times that of our Sun, it has ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

For more than a century, Betelgeuse has looked like a star with a secret. It swells and fades on a six-year rhythm that never quite made sense. The star, about 650 light-years away in space, is old, ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn't been ...

Easy. Get a dog from the animal shelter, care for it for 15 years and study it. Bruce Palmquist is a professor of physics, science and mathematics at Central Washington University.