{"id":218737,"date":"2025-07-25T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astronomers-share-best-ever-evidence-that-betelgeuse-has-a-secret-companion-star-and-theyve-nicknamed-it-her-bracelet"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:06:35","slug":"astronomers-share-best-ever-evidence-that-betelgeuse-has-a-secret-companion-star-and-theyve-nicknamed-it-her-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astronomers-share-best-ever-evidence-that-betelgeuse-has-a-secret-companion-star-and-theyve-nicknamed-it-her-bracelet","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers share best-ever evidence that Betelgeuse has a secret companion star \u2014 and they\u2019ve nicknamed it \u2018her bracelet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-share-best-ever-evidence-that-betelgeuse-has-a-secret-companion-star-and-theyve-nicknamed-it-her-bracelet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red supergiant Betelgeuse likely has a companion star, astronomers have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Long theorized to share an orbit with Betelgeuse \u2014 an extremely bright star that may go supernova in the next few thousand years \u2014 a sun-size companion star has finally appeared in unique observations taken with the Gemini North telescope high on Hawaii\u2019s Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red supergiant Betelgeuse likely has a companion star, astronomers have confirmed. Long theorized to share an orbit with Betelgeuse \u2014 an extremely bright star that may go supernova in the next few thousand years \u2014 a sun-size companion star has finally appeared in unique observations taken with the Gemini North telescope high on Hawaii\u2019s [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218737","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=218737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}