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Betelgeuse Has a Massive Secret Astronomers Just Discovered

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11.01.2026
Betelgeuse (not Beetlejuice) is a red supergiant in space whose brightness fluctuates. It does this because one set of rhythms made sense to scientists, and another set that they didn’t quite understand. Well, we might finally know why: for all these years, it had a small hidden celestial companion. Astronomers knew that Betelgeuse pulses roughly […] The post Betelgeuse Has a Massive Secret Astronomers Just Discovered appeared first on VICE.

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