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Shrinking giant

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This ultraviolet image of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse was taken in 1996 with the Hubble Space Telescope. New infrared observations with a ground-based interferometer now reveal that the star's diameter has mysteriously shrunk by more than 15 percent over the past 15 years. Credit: Andrea Dupree/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Ronald Gilliland/STScI, NASA, ESA

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