Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Stargazers Won’t See Ghosts but Supergiant Star for Spooky Season – NASA https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/watch-the-skies/2024/09/06/betelgeuse-betelgeuse-betelgeuse-stargazers-wont-see-ghosts-but-supergiant-star-for-spooky-season/
Stargazers seeking familiar points of interest in the night sky are likely to point out Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star sometimes identified as “the shoulder of Orion.” Even some 400-600 light-years distant, it’s typically one of the brightest stars visible in the night sky, and the brightest of all in the infrared spectrum. Fewer space …
that the competing gravity of other nearby stars ejected it outward or something else