Betelgeuse’s brilliance makes it extremely challenging to spot a smaller, dimmer star nearby. “A smaller, sun-sized star can ...

Since our sun ejects material into the solar system, so could Betelgeuse, but on a different ... and be visible in the daytime sometime in the next 100,000 years. That would be big news because ...

Still, Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star that has lived hard and will die young. It's just some 10 million years old — ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will appear just above the crescent moon. On the third day of the month, ...

When Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, eventually goes supernova—likely within the next 100,000 years—the night sky will light up as if a second sun appeared ...

This figure shows measurements of Betelgeuse's brightness from different observatories from late 2018 to present. The blue and green points represent data from ground-based observatories.

Using the same data they have also made the first map of the velocities of material the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun. Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the ...