Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Betelgeuse bang

One thing I know is that somewhere between tomorrow and the next million years, the star called Betelgeuse will explode. There is also a chance that the star has already exploded because it takes over six hundred years for light to travel from the giant star to Earth.

When the light from Betelgeuse's super nover explosion does reach us, it will shine as brightly to us as the sun; so there will appear to be two Suns in the sky for about a month.

I wonder if I will be around to see it? Statistically it is likely to explode in 500,000 years. Wouldn't it be nice to get a heads-up about future events like to get with eclipses and things like that.

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