{"id":3927200,"date":"2026-07-28T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-find-strongest-evidence-yet-that-betelgeuse-has-a-companion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:05:26","slug":"astronomers-find-strongest-evidence-yet-that-betelgeuse-has-a-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-find-strongest-evidence-yet-that-betelgeuse-has-a-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image yet of what is likely Betelgeuse B, the star orbiting Betelgeuse. &#8220;This is the conclusion of a century-long quest,&#8221; Montarg\u00e8s says.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-astronomers-strongest-evidence-betelgeuse-companion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image yet of what is likely Betelgeuse B, the star orbiting Betelgeuse. [&#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-3927200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}