New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like F-type star orbiting the massive red supergiant.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the giant red supergiant ...

Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

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Impressively, capturing an image of Betelbuddy was only the start of the discoveries. The researchers had anticipated the ...

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...

The small, furtive companion of one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky has just turned out to be something no one suspected. Instead of being the kind of object astronomers expected to find ...

In November 1572, a brilliant new star appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, shining so brightly that it was visible during the day. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe carefully documented this ...

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes reveal Betelgeuse’s hidden companion, “Betelbuddy,” reshaping what we know about binary ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.