{"id":111309,"date":"2020-08-13T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/hubble-finds-cause-for-betelgeuses-mysterious-dimming-is-aging-red-supergiant-about-to-supernova"},"modified":"2020-08-13T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:32:14","slug":"hubble-finds-cause-for-betelgeuses-mysterious-dimming-is-aging-red-supergiant-about-to-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/hubble-finds-cause-for-betelgeuses-mysterious-dimming-is-aging-red-supergiant-about-to-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Finds Cause for Betelgeuse\u2019s Mysterious Dimming \u2013 Is Aging Red Supergiant About to Supernova?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-finds-cause-for-betelgeuses-mysterious-dimming-is-aging-red-supergiant-about-to-supernova.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse\u2019s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Observations by NASA \u2019s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble researchers suggest that the dust cloud formed when superhot plasma unleashed from an upwelling of a large convection cell on the star\u2019s surface passed through the hot atmosphere to the colder outer layers, where it cooled and formed dust grains. The resulting dust cloud blocked light from about a quarter of the star\u2019s surface, beginning in late 2019. By April 2020, the star returned to normal brightness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse\u2019s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst Observations by NASA \u2019s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse\u2019s surface. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}