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    A dimming Betelgeuse has stargazers bursting. Three questions.

    Feb 19, 2020 2 minutes

    For the most part, the stars that populate the night sky today are the same pinpricks of light that our great-grandparents and their great-grandparents before them gazed upon. Constellations of the brightest stars, like Orion the hunter, have connected humanity to the cosmos for generations. These familiar night sights have drawn our eyes up, enticing us to ponder what else might be out there in

    What is Betelgeuse?Is Betelgeuse about to go supernova?Would a Betelgeuse supernova be a risk to us?

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