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This was the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA\'s Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, the red supergiant marks the shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter (diagram at right). Credit: Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI), NASA and ESA

This was the first direct image of a star other than the Sun, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Called Alpha Orionis, or Betelgeuse, the red supergiant marks the shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter (diagram at right). Credit: Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Ronald Gilliland (STScI), NASA and ESA

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