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Betelgeuse's companion star confirmed

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

October 2025

Century-old mystery solved with direct detection of a binary to the famous variable star

Betelgeuse is the 10th-brightest star in the night sky, 700 times the size of our Sun, and has fascinated humans for millennia. Now, at last, a 100-year-old mystery has been put to rest with the discovery of what causes it to dim every six years: a binary companion.

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