Betelgeuse Probably Dimmed Because of Enormous Starspots

Betelgeuse Probably Dimmed Because of Enormous Starspots
By Evan Gough

A few months ago we all watched as Betelgeuse dimmed. Between October 2019 and 22nd of February 2020 the star’s brightness dropped by a factor of about three. It went from magnitude 0.5, and from being the tenth-brightest star in the sky, to magnitude 1.7. Naturally, we all wondered what was happening. Would it go …

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July 7, 2020 at 09:49PM
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