NASA Telescopes Spot First Known Companion Star Orbiting Red Supergiant Betelgeuse
Astronomers have for the first time directly observed a companion star orbiting the massive red supergiant Betelgeuse, shedding new light on the dynamics of such extreme binary systems. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) captured the faint companion at its maximum distance from the bright giant. Betelgeuse itself is an enormous evolved star, over 700 times the size of the Sun and thousands of times more luminous, making this observation particularly challenging due to the glare of the primary star. Devamını Oku