Saturday, June 25, 2011

Massive Nebula Discovered Enveloping the Red Supergiant Betelgeuse

The small red circle in the middle is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. with a diameter about four and half times that of the Earth’s orbit. The black disc corresponds to a very bright part of the image that was masked to allow the fainter nebula to be seen.  link

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