{"id":11233,"date":"2026-08-04T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:09:25","slug":"faintest-planet-ever-imaged-from-earth-found-after-more-than-10-years-of-hide-and-seek-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/faintest-planet-ever-imaged-from-earth-found-after-more-than-10-years-of-hide-and-seek-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28\/07\/2026 &#8211; At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image ever of what likely is Betelgeuse B, the star orbiting Betelgeuse. \u201cThis is the conclusion of a century-long quest,\u201d says Montarg\u00e8s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2611\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story in the ESO Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png\" alt=\"Immagini VLT di Betelgeuse e della sua compagna - Crediti: ESO\/M. Montarg\u00e8s et al. Background: N. Rissinger (skysurvey.org)\" class=\"wp-image-11236\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VLT images of Betelgeuse and its companion\u00a0&#8211; Credit: ESO\/M. Montarg\u00e8s et al. Background: N. Rissinger (<a href=\"http:\/\/skysurvey.org\/\">skysurvey.org<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28\/07\/2026 &#8211; At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image ever of what likely is Betelgeuse B, the star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[767,390,365],"class_list":["post-11233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-betelgeuse-2","tag-eso-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",1500,694,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",150,69,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",300,139,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",768,355,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",1024,474,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",1500,694,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eso2611.png",1500,694,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>28\/07\/2026 &#8211; At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), a team led by French researcher Miguel Montarg\u00e8s obtained the clearest image ever of what likely is Betelgeuse B, the star orbiting Betelgeuse. \u201cThis is the conclusion of a century-long quest,\u201d says Montarg\u00e8s. Read the full story in the ESO Press Release VLT images of Betelgeuse and its companion\u00a0&#8211; Credit: ESO\/M. Montarg\u00e8s et al. Background: N. Rissinger (skysurvey.org)<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11240,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions\/11240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}