The star Betelgeuse has stopped dimming – but it surely's nonetheless appearing bizarre

After a bizarre occasion dubbed the Nice Dimming in 2019, the plasma that makes up Betelgeuse is sloshing round contained in the star, erasing pulsations which were measured for hundreds of years

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the ninth brightest star in the night sky

Betelgeuse is as much as its standard tips once more

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Betelgeuse continues to be appearing unusual. Because the star recovers from blasting out an enormous quantity of its innards in late 2019 in an occasion that turned generally known as the Nice Dimming, its floor is now bouncing like gelatin on a plate, and it has misplaced the pure 400-day heartbeat that has been current for not less than two centuries.

Andrea Dupree on the Harvard-Smithsonian Heart for Astrophysics in Massachusetts and her colleagues analysed observations from a slew of telescopes to unravel what occurred …