{"id":32247,"date":"2025-07-22T02:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32247"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:23:56","slug":"when-betelgeuse-explodes-its-going-to-take-out-another-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32247","title":{"rendered":"When Betelgeuse Explodes, It\u2019s Going to Take Out Another Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tempestuous star in Orion\u2019s shoulder has a buddy, and neither of their futures look bright.<\/p>\n

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Betelgeuse, a colossal tangerine-red star, is barreling toward annihilation. The stellar body is pronounced \u201cBeetlejuice,\u201d like the guy in the afterlife whose name you\u2019re not supposed to say thrice<\/a>. And at some point soon, in galactic terms, it is expected to explode as a supernova, setting the night sky ablaze.<\/p>\n

Despite its self-destructive proclivities, the irritable giant has managed to make, and keep, a friend.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a team of astronomers announced that they had spotted another star hewing extremely close<\/a> to Betelgeuse. So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.<\/p>\n

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white companion (or Betelbuddy<\/a>) has yet to start burning hydrogen in its core. In other words, the star hasn\u2019t entered the chapter of its life known as the main sequence \u2014 one that characterizes many stars, including our own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou have a star that is about to die, and it\u2019s being orbited by a star that\u2019s not fully born,\u201d said Miguel Montarg\u00e8s<\/a>, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory who was not involved with the new research.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t that crazy?\u201d said <\/strong>Steve B. Howell<\/a>, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in California and one of the discoverers of the companion star. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The tempestuous star in Orion\u2019s shoulder has a buddy, and neither of their futures look bright.Betelgeuse, a colossal tangerine-red star, is barreling toward annihilation. The stellar body is pronounced \u201cBeetlejuice,\u201d like the guy in the afterlife whose name you\u2019re not supposed to say thrice. And at some point soon, in galactic terms, it is expected to explode as a supernova, setting the night sky ablaze.Despite its self-destructive proclivities, the irritable giant has managed to make, and keep, a friend.On Monday, a team of astronomers announced that they had spotted another star hewing extremely close to Betelgeuse. So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white companion (or Betelbuddy) has yet to start burning hydrogen in its core. In other words, the star hasn\u2019t entered the chapter of its life known as the main sequence \u2014 one that characterizes many stars, including our own.\u201cYou have a star that is about to die, and it\u2019s being orbited by a star that\u2019s not fully born,\u201d said Miguel Montarg\u00e8s, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory who was not involved with the new research.\u201cIsn\u2019t that crazy?\u201d said Steve B. Howell, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in California and one of the discoverers of the companion star. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32250,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32247\/revisions\/32250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}