50 years ago, astronomers saw the surface of a distant star for the first time
Excerpt from the December 21, 1974 & December 28, 1974 issue of Science News
This image of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion was taken in 2009 by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.
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Surface features of a distant star — Science News, December 21, 1974 & December 28, 1974
Thanks to high-speed photography and modern data processing, [astronomers] are beginning to be able to suppress the effects of [a star] twinkling….