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submitted 6 days ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/space@beehaw.org

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

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[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Lydia, I would think.

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