In late 2019 and early 2020, Betelgeuse blew its top. ... An infrared image of Betelgeuse shows it's surrounded by a vast cloud of gas with copious amounts of silicates and alumina.

Betelgeuse dimming over time, with cloud seen in last panel. NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) That said, we still don’t know what caused the sudden brightening – it is now 50% brighter than ...

This was eventually shown to be caused by a cloud. Stars such as Betelgeuse are continuously expelling gas and dust. A clump of gas in the wind, as large as the star itself, was obscuring half the ...

This was eventually shown to be caused by a cloud. Stars such as Betelgeuse are continuously expelling gas and dust. A clump of gas in the wind, as large as the star itself, was obscuring half the ...

Slamming into the stellar behemoth's upper layers, it set off shocks and convulsions that blasted part of Betelgeuse's photosphere into an expanding cloud of gas that cooled to form a sooty cloud ...

Artist’s conception in 2021 provided a close-up of Betelgeuse’s irregular surface and its giant, dynamic gas bubbles, with distant stars dotting the background.

Betelgeuse experienced a weird cosmic event in 2020 that led to some supernova ... Betelgeuse belched out a cloud of gas and dust into space from an inner layer called the photosphere, ...

Stock image of a supernova. Betelgeuse, a huge star 650 light years away, may soon explode into a supernova that would be visible during the day.

Some scientists theorized that Betelgeuse was about to explode, ... forming a cloud that, when cooled, formed dust and gas that is now blocking the star’s brightness from our perspective.

In 2019, Betelgeuse dimmed suddenly before returning to normal a few months later as curious astronomers watched from afar. The question on all lips was whether Betelgeuse was about to explode. In the ...