{"id":219814,"date":"2025-08-10T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-spot-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:49:21","slug":"after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-spot-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-spot-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star","title":{"rendered":"After Decades of Searching, Astronomers Finally Spot Betelgeuse\u2019s Elusive Companion Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-spot-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gemini North telescope in Hawai\u2018i uncovers hidden companion to Betelgeuse, shedding light on ancient stellar mystery. Using the \u2018Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope\u2014funded by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation\u2014astronomers have identified a companion star in a very close or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemini North telescope in Hawai\u2018i uncovers hidden companion to Betelgeuse, shedding light on ancient stellar mystery. Using the \u2018Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope\u2014funded by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation\u2014astronomers have identified a companion star in a very close or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219814","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=219814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}