Scientists Found a New Problem With Betelgeuse
🌌 "The star that refused to die now has a friend it never asked for." Betelgeuse's dimming mystery just got stranger.A companion star, Siwarha, orbits Betelgeuse every 2,100 days, carving a wake through its atmosphere like a boat through water [citation:2][citation:7]. This wake disturbs Betelgeuse's gas, explaining its long-term brightness cycles [citation:6][citation:8]. But the new problem? Betelgeuse may have hundreds of thousands of years left—not centuries [citation:11][citation:14]. The companion also revealed that the star's atmosphere is being actively reshaped, altering how we…
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