{"id":243045,"date":"2026-08-22T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/i-jumped-from-my-chair-astronomers-discover-a-hidden-star-orbiting-betelgeuse"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:25:44","slug":"i-jumped-from-my-chair-astronomers-discover-a-hidden-star-orbiting-betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/i-jumped-from-my-chair-astronomers-discover-a-hidden-star-orbiting-betelgeuse","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Jumped From My Chair\u201d \u2014 Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-jumped-from-my-chair-astronomers-discover-a-hidden-star-orbiting-betelgeuse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct imaging has revealed strong evidence that Betelgeuse is orbited by a companion two to three times as massive as the Sun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For generations, Betelgeuse has appeared to the naked eye as a single reddish point in the constellation Orion. Now astronomers have obtained their strongest evidence yet that the famous star has company.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/european-southern-observatory\/\">European Southern Observatory\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/very-large-telescope\/\">Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT)<\/a>, a team led by French astronomer Miguel Montarg\u00e8s captured the clearest image so far of what is likely Betelgeuse B, a star orbiting the red supergiant. \u201cThis is the conclusion of a century-long quest,\u201d says Montarg\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct imaging has revealed strong evidence that Betelgeuse is orbited by a companion two to three times as massive as the Sun. For generations, Betelgeuse has appeared to the naked eye as a single reddish point in the constellation Orion. Now astronomers have obtained their strongest evidence yet that the famous star has company. Using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243045","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=243045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}