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Betelgeuse might go off
December 27, 2019 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2019 at 5:20 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Betelgeuse is dimming which means it might become a supernova at any minute and if it does it will be very bright on our sky (almost like a second sun) and will be seen even during the day which didn't happen since 1604.
But then again it's maybe just a phase and it won't explode in next 100 thousand years.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/world/bet...index.html
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RE: Betelgeuse might go off
December 27, 2019 at 6:08 pm
Zaphod is understandably upset....
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RE: Betelgeuse might go off
December 27, 2019 at 6:51 pm
It was still there when I checked just now
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RE: Betelgeuse might go off
December 27, 2019 at 8:09 pm
It's just Galactus fuckin with us.
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RE: Betelgeuse might go off
December 28, 2019 at 11:42 am
The dimming is not an indicator that it's about to go boom. Betelgeuse is a known variable star - though this is the most it has dimmed in a long time.
The star is definitely on the verge of going super nova but that is in stellar time. Even a star as massive as Betelgeuse has a lifetime of about 10 million years. That's very short compared to the 10 billion-year life of the sun or 1 trillion-year+ life of red dwarf stars but it's still ridiculously long in human terms. Even if it's in the last tenth of a percent of its life, that's still a period of 10,000 years!
I'd sure love to see it happen but it's probably wishful thinking.
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