Betelgeuse’s Dust Cloud (Artist’s Impression)
New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material that was ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from the star’s surface.
This artist's impression was generated using an image of Betelgeuse from late 2019 taken with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
Credit:ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
About the Image
Id: | heic2014a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | 13 August 2020, 17:00 |
Related releases: | heic2014 |
Size: | 1632 x 1630 px |
About the Object
Name: | Betelgeuse |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Red Supergiant |
Distance: | 750 light years |
Category: | Stars |