{"id":663933,"date":"2020-08-14T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663933"},"modified":"2020-08-14T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:11:00","slug":"the-atmosphere-of-betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663933","title":{"rendered":"The atmosphere of Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_atmosphere_of_Betelgeuse_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star marking the shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>The Hubble image reveals a huge ultraviolet atmosphere with a mysterious hot spot on the stellar behemoth&#8217;s surface. The enormous bright spot, which is many hundreds times the diameter of Sun, is at least 2, 000 Kelvin degrees hotter than the surface of the star.<\/p>\n<p>New\u00a0observations by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/news\/heic2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hubble helps uncover the mystery of the dimming of\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/news\/heic2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Betelgeuse<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/08\/The_atmosphere_of_Betelgeuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The atmosphere of Betelgeuse<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, it is a red supergiant star&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663934,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/663934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}