How to Use Betelgeuse in a Sentence

Betelgeuse

noun
  • Look down from Aldebaran and close to the horizon is Betelgeuse, the bright reddish shoulder of Orion.
    Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Betelgeuse, for instance, is a red supergiant that is somewhere between 640 and 764 times the radius of our sun!
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Another familiar star, Betelgeuse (the shoulder of Orion), is already a red giant.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The most obvious shape is Orion’s Belt — three stars (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka) in a straight line —with red giant Betelgeuse roughly between the belt stars and Jupiter.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • On the left of Venus and Jupiter will be Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini, while to the lower-right of the planets will be Betelgeuse in the Orion constellation.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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