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Astronomers Directly Image Betelgeuse’s Long-Suspected Stellar Companion


After a century of speculation, astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured the clearest evidence yet that the red supergiant Betelgeuse is orbited by a faint companion star.

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