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Betelgeuse On Steroids : This Monster Star Is Dimming And Scientists Now Know Why
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Researchers used Hubble images to determine the cause of the dimming
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Scientists have figured out why a monster star in the constellation Canis Major (the Great Dog) has been dimming.
The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is so massive it would engulf the inner planets and extend out to between Jupiter and Saturn if it replaced the sun at the center of our solar system, the European Space Agency (ESA)
But even though it is so bright and massive, the monster hypergiant is so far away that even 200 years ago, it was only visible as a faint star. And eventually, the star dimmed until it was no longer visible to the naked eye.
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