{"id":199077,"date":"2024-11-09T05:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/betelgeuses-secret-partner-betelbuddy-could-change-supernova-predictions"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:28:58","slug":"betelgeuses-secret-partner-betelbuddy-could-change-supernova-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/betelgeuses-secret-partner-betelbuddy-could-change-supernova-predictions","title":{"rendered":"Betelgeuse\u2019s Secret Partner Betelbuddy Could Change Supernova Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/betelgeuses-secret-partner-betelbuddy-could-change-supernova-predictions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are rethinking the timing of Betelgeuse\u2019s supernova, as new research suggests the star may have a hidden companion, known as Betelbuddy. This companion could be responsible for Betelgeuse\u2019s unusual brightening and dimming patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery opens up new possibilities, including the idea that Betelbuddy might be a young star or even something more exotic, like a neutron star. Researchers are working to confirm Betelbuddy\u2019s existence, which could dramatically change what we know about Betelgeuse and its eventual explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Betelgeuse and Betelbuddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are rethinking the timing of Betelgeuse\u2019s supernova, as new research suggests the star may have a hidden companion, known as Betelbuddy. This companion could be responsible for Betelgeuse\u2019s unusual brightening and dimming patterns. The discovery opens up new possibilities, including the idea that Betelbuddy might be a young star or even something more exotic, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199077","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}