In 2024, Astronomers Guessed That betel nut may have a stellar “friend”. If this fictional partner was present, it would help answer some questions about the strange brightness pattern of Red Super Zant. As it is revealed, these doubts were correct.
After many false signs and empty search results, astronomers with NASA’s AIIMS Research Center confirmed that Betelasuse is, in fact, is a younger friend star. The young star, with a mass of about 1.5 times the sun, probably has some unwanted effects on the gravitational area of the large star and the cosmic dust floating in the area around it. The interaction between the two stars seems to be such as betel nut – unlike most of the stars of its kind – an additional, extended duration of dimming by stopping at almost every six years.
“Papers who predicted betel nut partner, believed that no one would probably be able to image it,” Steve Hell, an astronomer who led the team, discovered the star, said in one, said in one. statement“It now opens the door for other observation activities of uniform nature.”
For searching, astronomers used Gemini north telescope In Hawaii, employing a technique known as speech imaging, which uses a very low exposure time to eradicate malformations in space images caused by the Earth’s atmosphere. This allowed researchers to hold the newly discovered stars, such as its mass and temperature, to identify some of the major features to catch the fellow star directly on a high adequate resolution.
What is attractive about “Bedelbudi” – researchers predicted its existence In a previous interview with gizmodo– In this form it was probably born as Beton around the same time. To keep it in perspective, a red supergent, beedlezuse, is near the end of their stellar lifetime, and astronomers estimate that it can explode in a fierce supernova within a decade or a decade. But the newly discovered fellow star is so small that he has not even started to ignite hydrogen at its core, meaning that it is still in the early stages of stellar development. This is likely because betel nut, which is 10 to 20 times more than the mass of our sun, is a lower lifetime than your light friend.
Given the relative proximity to betel nut to the Earth, astronomers have studied more closely than most other stars for centuries. From his comments, astronomers found that the brightness of the star varies in a cycle of about 400 days, with a secondary period for about six years. Variable stars are relatively normal, but Astronomers had long struggled to explain why Betonjus had an extended dimming period.
To be clear, it differs from the “great dimming” of betel nuts from 2019 to 2020, which scientists suspect that a large cloud of dust is the result of a star that later stains its brightness.
With the new discovery, astronomers now have a good answer to the mystery behind the bright -launching pattern of the year -long and the bright star betrays’. However, they hope that the intense gravitational bridge of weaving will raise the young star within the next 10,000 years.
Thankfully, this will not be the first and last time when we see Be Betelbudi alive. Astronomers hope that the young star will pass within the limits of our telescopes in November 2027, when it fly away from betel nut.
