The story describes Betelgeuse as “the red giant that marks Orion’s left shoulder.” Reader Chris Jespersen wrote: “I often see Betelgeuse on Orion’s right shoulder…. Am I mistaken?” ...

when compared to our Solar System. Oh, and some scientists thought it was going to explode there for a minute. However, Betelgeuse’s size and hypothetically explosive tendency aren’t its only ...

They suggest it is spinning much faster than a star its size ... of Betelgeuse, the team developed a new post-processing computer package to simulate synthetic ALMA images and compare them with ...