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Betelgeuse’s Companion Star May Have Been Seen at Last
Finally found: using speckle imaging, researchers have spotted what is likely the predicted 1.6-solar-mass companion to the red supergiant Betelgeuse.
Astrobites
Dust Deal with It
Astrobites reports on why we might need a cosmic feather duster to see life on other worlds.
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When Bright Spots Go Dark
New modeling tests a common assumption that’s important for interpreting exoplanet spectra: that stars of all spectral types exhibit bright magnetized regions called faculae.