Betelgeuse, the brightest red star as seen from Earth, reaches its highest point in the nighttime sky at about 8:15pm on Valentine's Day (February 14).
Scheduled air date: 1998 Feb 02-08
Betelgeuse, the brightest red star as seen from Earth, reaches
its highest point in the nighttime sky at about 8:15pm on
Valentine's Day (February 14).
Betelgeuse is an extremely large star, pulsating in size between
about the equivalent of Mars' orbit, to that of Jupiter's!
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