{"id":85463,"date":"2020-02-18T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13821"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:08:11","slug":"what-is-causing-the-supergiant-star-betelgeuse-to-dim-and-change-its-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-causing-the-supergiant-star-betelgeuse-to-dim-and-change-its-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"What is causing the supergiant star Betelgeuse to dim and change its shape?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Using the European Space Organisation\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have noticed the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star (over 20 times bigger than the Sun) in the constellation Orion.<\/li><li>Instead of appearing round, the star Betelgeuse, at present, appears to be \u201csquashed into an ova\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Red supergiant Stars:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>These are stars with a supergiant luminosity class (Yerkes class I) of spectral type K or M.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of volume, although they are not the most massive or luminous<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Using the European Space Organisation\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have noticed the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse. Facts: Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star (over 20 times bigger than the Sun) in the constellation Orion. Instead of appearing round, the star Betelgeuse, at present, appears to be \u201csquashed into an ova\u201d. Additional Information:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-causing-the-supergiant-star-betelgeuse-to-dim-and-change-its-shape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is causing the supergiant star Betelgeuse to dim and change its shape?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2812],"class_list":["post-85463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-betelgeuse","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704907011},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}