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"Betelgeuse" and Hubble telescope

August 24 , 2020 1430 days 710 0
  • Several ground-based telescopes observed the star, Betelgeuse decreasing in brightness in its southern hemisphere in late 2019.
  • This sudden dimming has mystified astronomers, who scrambled to develop several theories for the abrupt change.
  • By April 2020, the star returned to normal brightness.
  • Now, the Hubble observations suggest a dust cloud covering a portion of the star.
  • Betelgeuse, is a star which is about 725 light-years away.

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