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Betelgeuse Isn’t Just Dim: It’s Lopsided | SciShow News

Betelgeuse Isn’t Just Dim: It’s Lopsided | SciShow News Get your first audiobook and 2 Audible originals free when you try Audible for 30 days visit or text ‘scishowspace’ to 500 500!

The constellation of Orion has one shoulder marked by a bright red star called Betelgeuse, but over the last year it's dimmed enough to notice with the naked eye! and mission scientists are shedding some light on how Arrokoth and other Kuiper Belt objects may have formed.

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