Betelgeuse braces for a collision
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
Multiple arcs are revealed around Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant star to Earth, in this new image from ESA’s Herschel space observatory. The star and its arc-shaped shields could collide with an intriguing dusty ‘wall’ in 5000 years.