Scientists Are Getting More Nervous About Betelgeuse

Scientists Are Getting More Nervous About Betelgeuse

Scientists Are Getting More Nervous About Betelgeuse

A red giant six hundred fifty light-years away is acting up, and the scientists watching it are losing sleep. Betelgeuse, the star on Orion’s shoulder, is so massive that more than four hundred million Suns could fit inside it. Now it’s pulsing in ways nobody predicted, hiding a secret companion in its atmosphere, and burning through the last fuel it will ever have. Credit to : Late Science