{"id":3923435,"date":"2026-01-05T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star-siwarhas-wake-detected\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:04:18","slug":"betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star-siwarhas-wake-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star-siwarhas-wake-detected\/","title":{"rendered":"Betelgeuse&#8217;s elusive companion star: Siwarha&#8217;s &#8216;wake&#8217; detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Using new observations from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers have tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around Betelgeuse. The research, by scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA), reveals a trail of dense gas swirling through Betelgeuse&#8217;s vast, extended atmosphere, shedding light on why the giant star&#8217;s brightness and atmosphere have changed in strange and unusual ways.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-betelgeuse-elusive-companion-star-siwarha.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using new observations from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers have tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around Betelgeuse. The research, by scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA), reveals a trail of dense gas swirling through Betelgeuse&#8217;s vast, extended atmosphere, shedding [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}