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The Probable Direct-Imaging Detection of the Stellar Companion to Betelgeuse: [oops, the paper will only go on ArXiv tonight and appear in ApJL on 24 July] -> Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse: #Betelgeuse, solving millennia-old mystery. The picture here is from the actual paper which has been sent to me ... compare it to the spiced-up version in the press release! The authors themselves say it's only a 1.5 sigma detection but because it fits the expectations for a 'Betel buddy' so well, they believe it. See https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-17-juli-2025/#Jul21 for more discussion!

And here now is the paper "The Probable Direct-Imaging Detection of the Stellar Companion to #Betelgeuse": https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15749 (with a super-stretched version of the image).