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Betelgeuse and dark cloud

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-eto01-00053

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 18 cm

Artist's illustration of a huge dust cloud blocking light from the supergiant star Betelgeuse, as seen from Earth. A hot blob of plasma was ejected from the star's surface, expelled gas rapidly expanded outward and cooled to form an enormous cloud of obscuring dust grains.

Keywords for this photo:

2019 - ASTRONOMY - BETELGEUSE - DUST - ILLUSTRATION - M STAR - RED SUPERGIANT - STAR - SUPERGIANT -