Letters to the EditorReaders react to Betelgeuses buddy, the 2024 Nobels and small nuclear reactor wasteBy Science News Staff1 hour agoIts all relativeBetelgeuse may have a sun-sized companion starthat orbits it about once every 2,100 days, astronomy writer Lisa Grossman reported in Betelgeuses invisible buddy.The story describes Betelgeuse as the red giant that marks Orions left shoulder. Reader Chris JespersenThis is actually a matter of perspective, Grossman says. The ancient Greeks thought the Orion constellation resembled the figure of a hunter. Many people agree that this celestial hunter faces Earth. Betelgeuse represents whats considered the hunters right shoulder, which is on the figures left from the perspective of Earth, she says.