AustriaAstronomers have potentially solved a century-old mystery regarding Betelgeuse's companion star. New observations using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile provide the strongest evidence yet for a dim, stellar companion named Betelgeuse B. This follows earlier observations from the Gemini-North telescope in Hawaii, which first captured images of the suspected companion but required confirmation. The discovery suggests Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion, is not a single star but has a faint stellar neighbor. Betelgeuse is one of the most studied stars, with a diameter over 700 times that of the Sun and a luminosity 55,000 times greater. Its recent 'Great Dimming' event in 2019 sparked global speculation about its potential supernova explosion.
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