When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge ...

This weird behaviour indicates to astronomers that something big is about to happen: Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, could soon explode as a supernova. When Betelgeuse does ...

Back in 2019, NASA noted that Betelgeuse's brightness dimmed by about 60%, leading some scientists to wonder if it was entering a 'pre-supernova' phase, an event later explained as a a surface mass ...