Close Up Images Show Something Weird is Happening on Betelgeuse

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The supernova of Betelgeuse is the most anticipated celestial event. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in Orion. Astronomers are regularly monitoring the star. A recent research paper has revealed that the star's surface is boiling, creating an illusion of rapid rotation.
RESOURCES and REFERENCES:
📄 RESEARCH PAPERS:
1. Is Betelgeuse Really Rotating? Synthetic ALMA Observations of Large-scale Convection in 3D Simulations of Red Supergiants, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ma et al. - bit.ly/4b68MnW
2. The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: a Surface Mass Ejection (SME)
and its Consequences, The Astrophysical Journal, Dupree et al. - arxiv.org/pdf/2208.01676.pdf
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[@OldDogLearnNewTricks]

Day 3,648 of people saying "Something weird is happening on Betelgeuse"

[@Cowabungacards]

Well, given the lifetime of stars being millions or billions of years old. It's possible that the actual supernova won't happen in our lifetimes. Scientists are just hoping it does.

[@heatherflaherty3360]

There is a chance the supernova already happened but the light hasn't reached earth

[@ynkybomber]

This guy doesn't understand galactic timescales

[@raimohoft1236]

... but now back to the Phlegraean Fields! 😁

[@JimmyMorrison-hi5gy]

@@heatherflaherty3360to be fair it’s a couple hundred light years away so it might take a couple hundred years

[@TBPony]

So technicaly Betelgeuse could already have gone supernova right now and we wouldnt even know until 400 500 years from now

[@littlegirlblue9829]

Or it did it hundreds of years ago and we'll see it soon

[@taylorlatch2635]

millions of stars have gone supernova that we still see as stars. doesn't really matter about the distance and light speed, the only way we'll really know is when we can see it

[@fuckinantipope5511]

​@@littlegirlblue9829I desperately hope that we will see it soon. I really want to see a Super Nova in my lifetime

[@christophersauer1939]

Not necessarily. It may have already gone supernova and we’ll see it soon meaning it went supernova 400-600 years ago.

[@WeThePeople2020]

634 years to be exact.

[@number1son]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice bettlej……..

[@resotunes]

AHHH

[@aaryaratnakar7229]

😄

[@Catswpartyhats]

NOO!!!😭😭😭😭😖😖

[@Southwest_923WR]

🤷🏿‍♂️

[@annm4833]

Exactly what I was thinking! 😂👍

[@ElementofKindness]

_"Can we study Betelgeuse using the James Webb telescope?"_ _"No. It's instruments are too sensitive for its intensity."_ [Hubble telescope] *_"Hey. ya guys know I ain't dead yet, right?"_*

[@htos1av]

Hubble should be "open sourced' to EVERYONE for $150/hr. I have a few "experiments" to conduct from here, as my workstation is now the same power as a 1993 SGI 10k "Infinite Reality" system , used to confab the first cable modems. But that was just a day job....

[@2321Julius]

​@@htos1avyou must be joking 😂

[@chaosopher23]

What's needed to study it, is a big mirror and sunglasses. Webb forgot his sunglasses. What would you expect from a NASA administrator?

[@johncronin9540]

It is being observed across many EM wavelengths, including the infrared. As a matter of fact, observations in the infrared during the dimming in 2019 (in the visible spectrum) remained steady, so the dimming wasn’t in the infrared, just the visible light part of the spectrum. If I remember, Hubble does have some capability in observing in 5he near infrared.

[@chaosopher23]

Perhaps we need a spacecraft that points at Betelgeuse at all times, streaming data constantly?

[@krystalreverb]

“Betelgeuse is Boiling” is now the name of my new drone folk album

[@tinman1955]

You gotta squeeze a helluva lotta beetles to make that much Beetlejuice.

[@GanarfGeorgie]

Ford Prefect's second favorite beverage, next to Pangalactic Gargleblaster!

[@paradisepipeco]

@@GanarfGeorgie *_Innkeeper!_* A round of Pangalactic Gargleblasters for the house, and fresh horses for my men. _Wait....._ On second thought, make that polite horses. _(We've had just about enough of their sass.)_ Also, bring me a rubber band sandwich, and make it snappy.....

[@paradisepipeco]

*@tinman1955* Not only that, you have to catch quite a lot of moles to make up a proper serving of mole-asses. I have no idea why some folks prefer mole-asses on their flapjacks.

[@paradisepipeco]

*_"These aren't the jokes you're looking for"_* ~~ Obi-Wonton Cannoli

[@NeroDefogger]

indeed

[@drsteiner12]

I’m just amazed how scientists are able to figure things out with just a fuzzy image of a light.

[@CaptainBlaine]

I can already see the headlines if it goes nova in the near future: “Betelgeuse breaks physics”, when really, we had no idea what would really happen to begin with. This is why we need to be careful about using the word “theorize”, when colloquially we mean “speculate” or even “estimate”. Whatever happens, I would bet that it will completely surprise the science community.

[@tedbanning9090]

Actually, Betelgeuse WAS boiling. It may even have gone nova already. As it's more than 650 light years away what we're seeing happened 650 years ago.

[@Torta--is--PLUR]

Actually...you sound like a absolute cringey douche trying to make a point everyone already knows

[@Alien_O1]

It hasn't. We aliens oftern pass it. 👽

[@nighthawk0077]

I don't think super giants go Nova

[@mamaloh8165]

@@nighthawk0077 no, but Supernova. Thats a difference.

[@buckfiden854]

Beetlejuice is a giant waste depository for toxic waste generated by the artificially created stars used to power the hyperloop slip stream gates to traverse the galaxy by exiting local space time and traveling outside the curvature of the 3rd dimension of our universe and local time flow is stopped while outside the confines of space time, in the foamy environment of the higs field where the multiverse can be observed and quantified, before you pop your gravity bubble and the graviton waves push you through the space time membrane , back into our own universe that we can exist in. Most universes in the multiverse lack the necessary constants and energy needed to support biological so called life. Were we to accidentally poke a hole into the wrong universe, we would evaporate into basic sub atomic particles and cease to exist. So if could give me a lift to Saturn, I can gather enough materials and deuterium from the wrings to build my own gravity slip stream to access the higs field and get back to my dimension hopefully without being pushed into the wrong universe again. I'm tired of the clown universe of evil and chaos. It was fun the first couple millennium, but its still the clown universe and I hate clowns. Get me the hell out of here. I also can make your interdimentional gravity drive operate more effectively and prevent accidental disentanglment and quantum evaporation and other types of interdimentional errors and potential fuckery that can cause unwanted non existence and cascading universal ripples and mergers with unstable universes like clown universe. So come pick me up, and then we can go back to the universe of order, harmony, and swarms of winged nympomaniac super model hookers and portable blow job maidens . You know , those hot chicks with no vocal chords and a desire to be naked every time they see a star ship land. Clown universe sucks and has none of the great stuff found in the orderly universe we were robbed from. Get me out of here

[@robertfitch310]

I live in coastal mountains N/W of Monterey Bay, know for great stargazing. You can see Betelgeuse in a very defined pulse/ vibration seeming to change colors. Fascinating! ⛰🌲👨‍🌾🇺🇸

[@funfactsfactory620]

Yeah, what you are seeing is caused by the Earth's atmosphere.

[@moceri55]

@@funfactsfactory620is right. What you’re seeing is the distortion from the earths atmosphere. That’s what they mean in the song Twinkie twinkle little star. The only telescope I know of that has software to compensate for the atmospheric distortion is the one in Hawaii. Could be more but that’s the only one I know of.

[@resn_x]

I don't normally subscribe to these types of channels because they're always romancing, exaggerating and speculating. I just want to hear facts, and this video delivered

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

It all comes down to when Betelgeuse is producing iron. All stages of fusion release energy up to iron. Iron fusion absorbs energy and is the death of supergiant stars.

[@andrewpinkham9904]

There might have been a collision with a planet sized object heavy in iron

[@michaelbarnard8529]

If I remember correctly, the iron producing phase is so fast you would say it is the beginning of the supernova, not any kind of warning of one.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

@@michaelbarnard8529 Each phase of fusion the amount of time in that phase is shortened by 1/2. The fusion phase of iron lasts less than a day.

[@John-wg6xw]

Yeah. The process is Hydrogen first then Helium to Carbon then Silicon to Iron and then Supernova.

[@Ram_Milestone]

He is my friend since childhood.. I dont want him to explode.. 😢😢 Aridra Nakshtra..

[@omega311888]

me neither. It would ruin my favorite constellation. 😢

[@arandomperson4718]

Don't worry, in betelgeuse's place will be born countless more stars, so called "children of betelgeuse," as I like to think of it

[@astrovert.ed2321]

​@@arandomperson4718 You mean Beetel's juice?

[@BasedPeanutButterEnjoyer]

@@omega311888Screw your constellation, gimme dat supernova!

[@zamar2158]

You're not going to know or see it. Still 4 to 500 years further to go before we humans know for sure. But yeah, Orion's left shoulder...

[@benhudman7911]

It was pulsing a few months ago. I just happened to be watching on a clear night.

[@scotthayes1264]

I totally saw that. Think it was early February. It was most definitely pulsing to the naked eye. I watched it for like 35 minutes convinced I was about to see a supernova lol.

[@kobuna7577]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXPLANATION Back in November I recorded a super zoomed in video of Betelgeuse in an area with little to no light polution, in the video I acknowledge just how crazy bright it is and that it's flashing blue and red. You can even make out the bubbly effects in the video, I did not even think astronomers were studying Betelgeuse right now because the last thing NASA reported on it was that it dimmed significantly and went from being the 10th brightest star to the 20th something which was back in 2019, and now it's even brighter than it was when it was the 10th brightest star, so essentially I spotted and recorded Betelgeuse's bubbles AND the fact it got so much brighter - months before NASA even reported these things, and for that I am very proud of myself, as soon as I went inside home after making the recording, I tried as hard as I could to find any news about the stars current state but the latest studies on the star were in 2019 so I never was able to find any explanation...until now

[@YTDani75]

​@@MadScientist267 Fr they should use Footballfield/cheeseburger instead

[@Basara_Toujou]

​@@YTDani75 As an aspiring Astrophysicist... I approve of this metric. Infact the whole world should use this.

[@peterdarr383]

@@MadScientist267 5 km/sec at a "Jupiter Orbit" would give you a PRECISE RPM. AND - (edited) Just to do some more math . . . . Jupiter orbits the Sun at 13 km/sec Jupiter takes 11.86 Years per orbit. Betelgeuse ROTATES slower, at 5 km/sec so 6.117 e-8 RPM Unless my calculator is broken. 🤔

[@Basara_Toujou]

@@MadScientist267 I know... I'm a Student... That was just a joke to go by... Have a good day pal

[@peterdarr383]

@@MadScientist267 Earth rotates once a day. That's not a velocity. "Earth spins on its axis at about 1,000 miles per hour (460 m/s or 1,600 km/hr)'. Venus spins so slowly that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East. So Mr. Scientist, how fast does Venus spin ??

[@snappybean]

'Ahem, I believe you MEANT to say it WAS boilng....". Am I the thousandth poster? Did I win?

[@dcquence]

We measure time and events from our perspective so we say is

[@dontwitty1656]

Don't forget that any, so called events on betelgeuse, that we observe, happed 650 years ago

[@vitavomloehberg]

Right, so saying „something weird IS happening…..“ sounds odd

[@bundasauresrex1695]

This is true..were seeing light from along time ago. Example..they say there might be life on certain planets,..were that planet and star might be in it's time and space will be different from our perception..that's how far the space and time differ..which is then just a guess...

[@ronaldderooij1774]

For me, the "now" is defined by my position in the universe.

[@DPtheOG]

It's a star. What happens to it that we see now could well take 650 years or much longer, with various phases. Remember that other stars are in more advanced states than Betelguese, like VY Canis Majoris.

[@skylx0812]

Robert: I told you they'd come. Rosalind: No you didn't. Robert: Right. I was GOING to tell you they'd come. Rosalind: But you didn't. Robert: But I DON'T. Rosalind: You sure that's right? Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come? Rosalind: No. Robert: The subjunctive? Rosalind: That's not the subjunctive. Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet. Rosalind: It would have had to have been. Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.

[@johnshields6852]

It's deathbed,lol, maybe 500,000 years from now, these distances and time scales are so vast.

[@yodajenkins808]

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

[@htos1av]

May 1977! That movie was SUCH a smash hit-it DROVE all the Mars news (and the face ) OUT of papers and tv OVERNIGHT!!!

[@gregstuart9783]

So, if we add 700 yrs to may 1977, = 2677AD, I’ll be gone, way gone😂

[@paradisepipeco]

*_"These aren't the comments you're looking for"_* ~~ Obi-Wonton Cannoli

[@gregstuart9783]

@@paradisepipeco funny……

[@paradisepipeco]

@@gregstuart9783 Alas, young Jedi..... Perhaps I have not lived in vain after all...... I appreciate the good word. Cheers.

[@parvitzparvitz3797]

Type 5 civilisations at Beetlegeese playing games with us...😂

[@keirfarnum6811]

Did someone genetically combine beetles with geese? I guess a type 5 could do that.

[@petergibson2318]

Betelgeuse will certainly go Supernova soon. But....remember this.....to a star "soon" could be 100 million years. So don't bother sitting on your sun-lounger in the garden tonight staring at Betelgeuse .....hoping for, and waiting for the fireworks display.

[@taylorlatch2635]

Betelgeuse can't live for 100 million years. It's life expectancy is up in 100,000 years maximum. The star will have lived for 10 million years

[@zrglow4450]

Need.... more.... dots.... to..... look....... MYSTERIOUS.............

[@Erg893]

@@zrglow4450instructions…..unclear…..been stuck now…..

[@ParadoxalDream]

Tim Burton's viral marketing for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Out on September 6) has started

[@paradisepipeco]

*_"Betelgeuse Is Boiling"_* is my favorite Tennessee Williams play.

[@kroon275]

Correction, something weird has happened on Betelgeuse. Approximately 600 years ago.

[@taylorlatch2635]

I don't see the need to point out the speed of light when talking about distance objects like this. If we see a meteorite hit the moon, it's not really necessary to mention that it happened 12 seconds ago. There's literally no way of getting information faster than light

[@taylorlatch2635]

Don't see the need to point out the speed of light for every discussion about distant objects* I don't think it needs a correction, when we see it dim or something, that's when it dims, that's when it effects us.

[@madmaxfzz]

No, because "when" depends upon where you are. Only the speed of light (causality) is constant, so the idea of simultaniety is meaningless over such distances.

[@kroon275]

@@taylorlatch2635 short sighted view 🤔😉😂

[@ggates2500]

Anyone else stare at it for more than 30s, trying to will it to go?

[@scotthayes1264]

All the time

[@happyslappy5203]

"Betelgeuse is boiling!" "Nothing wrong with some boiled potatoes. Mind your own business." (Average Betelgeusian)

[@GanarfGeorgie]

Y'all stop pickin' on Zaphod!

[@paradisepipeco]

*_"Betelgeuse Is Boiling"_* is my favorite Tennessee Williams play.

[@phoenixdarkmoon8040]

In some cultures Betelgeus was a Hell dimension. When it explodes you could thonk of it as "the gates of Hell being thrown wide"

[@HenryMiller-ox1xu]

:0

[@typo1345]

nah, hell in our universe already exists and is much closer to Earth. A certain evil twin of ours named Venus. Surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead (800°F, 426°C) a consistent state of dim dawn brightness because of the thick yellow sulphuric acid clouds blocking sunlight almost no wind at all on the surface, meaning the heat thrives even more thousands of volcanoes across the surface its day lasts longer than its year rains sulphuric acid, but because of the extreme surface temperature, it evaporates before even touching the ground an atmospheric pressure almost 100× that of Earth's no magnetosphere so it's in a constant state of bombardment from the sun's rays if you were to step on that planet without a protective suit, you'd be crushed, scalded with every breath and badly burned all over, and would die of asphyxiation due to its atmosphere being made up of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulphuric acid, no oxygen. you'd be dead in seconds

[@apophisstr6719]

Imagine being one of those who is living close to this star, oh dear.

[@NondescriptMammal]

Anything that we see happening to Betelgeuse now, actually happened 600 years ago.

[@astrovert.ed2321]

If the star explodes and Orion loses one shoulder, it would look like Pushpa.

[@Myrslokstok]

At least it isnt one of the stars in the belt!

[@DrNat1]

It’s the aliens building a Dyson sphere 👽

[@kiritrana3915]

Lol. That's around KIC 8462852

[@MgtowRubicon]

When the fusion process begins making iron, the supernova happens in a few seconds as the fusion does not generate enough energy to support the mass. Gravity always wins.

[@elyseenger2646]

main sequence stars with iron in them usually become a black hole. Betelgeuse is a supergiant, so this comment makes so much sense.

[@raimohoft1236]

Time always win!

[@omegametroyd]

Well, he's getting a sequel...ofc he would be boiling with anticipation...or anger depending on how the sequel goes

[@MostafaZeinali]

Damn... I remember the good old days when Ford, Zaphod and I used to star surf on Betelgeuse... I hope they are alright wherever they are...

[@docbailey3265]

42.

[@Groksaurus]

So... you're basically saying that we are detecting the death of a star by SNEWS SNEWS

[@devzeppelin1911]

It needs to pop already, i wanna see a supernova before I die

[@NikeaTiber]

Nobody has laughed at me when I say that I love my shovel ever since the ones that did went missing.

[@wigglemd]

I Hope Ford Prefect Can Get Back in Time To Get A Clean Towel😄

[@keirfarnum6811]

He’ll be fine. He won’t panic.

[@justinalvarado7351]

Betelgeuse has the bubble guts 😮 💨

[@PyroRob69]

All starts 'boil' on their surfaces. Even Sol boils on the surface.

[@Taijitu527]

Yea but not in a way it starts getting Irregular shape and in a Agressive way

[@Deploracle]

@@Taijitu527 We only have real data on just one sun. All the others, if any others exist at all, are just tiny streams of photons. Nothing real can be learned from them other than their frequency and direction of travel. What science says about other suns is based upon what we know to be true with our sun plus a little more or less based upon computer models. There is no way to determine the shape of Betelgeuse nor whether or not it displays aggression.

[@Taijitu527]

@@Deploracle ok

[@Usnveteranstacker]

@@Deploracleoh nice? What school did you go to to get your starologist degree

[@Deploracle]

@@Usnveteranstacker Starologist? All it takes is basic physics. The only physical evidence we have from Betelgeuse is light, and not very much of it. Astronomy describes the edge of the universe in more detail than Oceanographers describe the ocean floor. We have reams of data from the ocean floor but only a tiny portion has been explored. We have next to nothing from deep space.

[@masamune2984]

What I find fascinating is that supernovas apparently happen in seconds, so regardless of the time it takes it’s light to actually get here, in our sky, it would also seem to visually change in seconds to our eyes as well, even if it happened long, long ago.

[@user-rz8su6dk4e]

Maybe the mass ejection was so large that's what got it spinning.

[@kirbywaite1586]

At first i thought the thumbnail was a delicious biscuit.

[@spydermag5644]

Vogon so I can enjoy poetry in the native language.

[@TheEducat0r]

Betelgeuse never fails to keep us on our toes! Can't wait to see what this weirdness is all about!

[@MiguelFuentes420]

Come on!, I observed the 1987 supernova event without a telescope. 1987A is my Supernova.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

It's spinning faster, so it's shrinking. Helium fusion is ending. It won't be long until it goes supernova.

[@moceri55]

You mean something already happened on Beetlejuice since it takes 650 years for us to see or detect it. It may have gone supernova yesterday but we won’t be alive to witness it.

[@CFkatehudson]

did it already die but we dont know yet?

[@thejnickable6]

That light that reach us is hundreds and hundreds of years old...so quite possibly.

[@fundiambb]

It's approximately seven hundred light years away So if it does explode in the near future technically. Yes, we would know until the light gets to us But it's still close enough to where we're able to get a decent ammount of data

[@Brad.wilson1111]

We've never observed a star forming. But they explode every 26 years on average. And we've observed that. So when someone says a star formed in a solar nebula. That's just an educated guess. Another interesting thing is if we count the exploded stars in our galaxy there are about 6000 years worth of dead stars.

[@pigghey5592]

Is there somewhere you can somehow make so you get a notification when that SNEWS detects nutrinos? I really wanna be watching the sky when this happens. (I'm aware it could be 30 years from now)

[@TheSecretsoftheUniverse]

Yes! From the official website of SNEWS, you can download the SNEWS app to get notified about the occurrence of a neutrino burst. Here's the link to that webpage: snews2.org/alert-signup/ Cheers :)

[@pigghey5592]

@@TheSecretsoftheUniverse Thank you very much!

[@bp.007]

@@TheSecretsoftheUniverse is there one for android?

[@SoulSpa6835]

Sameee!!!

[@Deploracle]

It's nearly impossible to detect Neutrinos from our own sun. Theory says they should be everywhere all the time but even then they are extraordinarily hard to detect. They tend to go right through just about everything including the detectors. In a numbers game determined by the inverse square law .. detecting Neutrinos from our sun is extremely difficult making detecting them from light years away .. well .. impossible.

[@sidensvans67]

Close up Images ? "Betelgeuse / Distance to Earth: 642.5 light years" Hmm . 👀

[@jacklow9611]

As far away as it is, it could have already gone supernova centuries ago, but we don't know it yet.

[@fuckinantipope5511]

Let's hope it went Super Nova 649 years ago so that we can observe a Super Nova next year in our sky! Observing a Super Nova must be so cool!

[@lory2622]

Beetlefuice began to dim so it came to be known as the great dimming of Beetlejuice… and that’s the best they got? It’s no wonder they went into astronomy, marketing was just not their specialty.

[@rexpayne7836]

Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊

[@charjl96]

I thought you said penetration

[@Thaumh]

The track you play from 3:40 to 8:40 is my absolute fave of your background music. I wish I knew the name and artist because I'd love to find it and listen to it without any narration.

[@eiolenimea]

All this time I thought it was spelled Beetlejuice...

[@stevenward3856]

Way back in the earlier days of personal computers (PCs), I found a program for the Atari that simulated motion by changing (rotating) colors on a water fall. This seems to be what is happening with Betelgeuse. With the convection of temperatures creating red-shifts/blue shifts, this has the same effect. (Basically what you had already said, but in a simpler, repeatable fashion.)

[@lindabarrett5631]

Fascinating !

[@sandrajones1609]

I hear you saying that we have figured out that we can't figure it out while desperately hanging on to scientific knowledge? The only constant is change.. expect the unexpected. The only "problematic" process is prediction 💫

[@timvos5371]

Of course it’s boiling, it’s a star for gosh sakes! I wouldn’t expect it to be frozen!

[@commoncitizen03]

Beautiful appraisal 🙏

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

High Five! 🙏

[@Birs_84]

Rotation is not measured in miles or kilometer per second, but in angular velocity, rpm or degrees per time. Only flatearthers measure in absolute speed.

[@oldskeptic1513]

... it's been said already... it's an old new, around 640 years old ... it may not be there as we speak ...

[@ryanlarson8096]

Here's the ChatGPT prompt that wrote this script: "Write a script on the recent behavior of the star Betelgeuse. Make it interesting and include several exciting reveals. Add in an ad for Babble in the middle."

[@GaiaCarney]

Thanks!

[@barbarahunter3904]

I was simultaneously watching the video and hearing Harry Belafonte's song "Dayo" going on and on in my mind. Now that song is stuck in my mind!😊

[@paradisepipeco]

Much better *_"Day-O"_* than with *_"Zombie Jamboree"._* _(You might have to sleep with a light on if that happened.)_

[@KateluvsSunandMoon]

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE...... ***BEETLEJUICE***

[@paradisepipeco]

@@KateluvsSunandMoon *_"Russia, Russia, RUSSIA"_* ~~ Some Republicans.....

[@Silhouette7.-nn6pk]

Is it not possible for someone from my local council to "pop over" to Betelgeuse 🌟 to find out what all the fuss is about !?.

[@lukedawg2787]

Just tossing it out there but wouldn’t it be entirely possible that the reason this star dims the way it does could be planets that are still rotating around it but inside it’s up layers? I mean when the sun expands and swallows all the inner rocky planets, it’s still a slow process and the planets would take a considerable amount of time to burn up. The planets would still want to orbit around it. So if that were the case, then this dimming would be the same as if the planet were outside of it. What we might be seeing are cores of this star’s planets that are still orbiting the star. They are just orbiting the star within its outer layers and when they get on the side facing earth it cause the star to dim.

[@Auto-UTTP_Report_Bot]

I heard if you say Betelgeuse: not beetlejuice, three times. our star/sun will rapidly grow in mass and go supernova. I wouldn't try it because I like the warmth we have right now, not radioactive microwaving of our planet

[@lorettahookano6139]

“ It’s show time “ !

[@KateluvsSunandMoon]

The juice/guese is loose

[@alicesacco9329]

I just saw the northern lights in Italy, let's hope to be so lucky to be able to see a supernova too.

[@marcbelisle5685]

If you say Betelgeuse three times it explodes.

[@PaulWright-kw5cm]

Love it! 🤣

[@tokivikerness8863]

My dad has dementia and calls me constantly telling me betelguese is about to explode. He finds stupid shit like this and doesn't know any better.

[@Myrslokstok]

Humanity will go supernova before Beatlejuze!

[@user-st1zq2nd4t]

Beetlejuice is more fun to say and most people are more interested because of it.

[@jamesmoore9596]

The day some 700,000 years from now when Orion the Hunter is renamed The Well Hung Hobbyhorse. (@10:50 - 11:08)

[@starsnake8176]

The animation at 2:22 was interesting and I've never seen tat before. Was that a real simulation of what Betelgeuse is like?

[@starscream6629]

Supernova simulation of the dust being thrown out.

[@rickpontificates3406]

Is there a star that ISN'T "boiling"? Once a star stops boiling, it collapses in on itself and stops being a star

[@chrisbaker2903]

There are many different estimates of the distance to Betelgeuse. I've seen everything from 450 light years up to 850 light years and they can't really tell because it's surface is unstable. From my point of view I don't care. All I want is for the wavefront of the explosion to get here before I become completely unable to go out and observe it.

[@paulwilson6511]

The models of supernova's show that a star has to go through this boiling bubbling process first before it can explode. The models just don't work to produce a supernova without this happening. Doesn't mean the models are right but that is what they show. There is still a very small risk of a gamma ray burst from a Betelgeuse supernova despite being 650 light years away. It is almost certainly not big enough to produce a gamma ray burst and its explosion poles would have to be pointed directly at Earth but there is still a one in a billion risk. You would have to be in a concrete type basement for a few hours to escape this risk and everyone in your hemisphere would be dead on the streets anyway if it happened and there would be no electronic equipment left intact (including your car and your phone and electricity) so don't worry about it. You don't want to live through a gamma ray burst.

[@shadowfighter8861]

If a gamma ray dangerous enough to kill everyone on a hemisphere hit earth, being in a basement wouldn't save you. Gamma radiation is very persistent, and also if it were such a high amount of gamma radiation it would fry the ozone layer, in which case i'd advise you to stay miles underground for centuries until the ozone layer might have recovered.

[@docbailey3265]

I’m now saying it’s due to aliens, but it’s due to aliens.

[@robertcahoon5278]

Was finally explained by the theory....I didn't think theories proved anything!😁

[@John-wg6xw]

The last observable Supernova was in 1987 and not 1604 named SN 1987a seen in the large Magellanic cloud. Pictures and story are on Google.

[@user-yh2kz6yd5m]

Prompting them to waste resources on something that is not even beneficial to humankind....bettlejuice

[@markmarsh27]

You MEANT to say "something weird was happening to Betelgeuse 642 years ago, (it's 642.5 lights years away so we're watching what Betelgeuse was doing in the year 1382; it may have exploded a century ago, we just can't know yet).

[@Redinator]

So the super powerful telescopes in 1382 should have noticed it. Dang slackers of 1382.

[@whochecksthis]

It doesn’t matter how far away it is… what matters is what the light that is reaching us shows.

[@RamielNagisa]

You’re nitpicking

[@MpdNull-mv4pm]

maybe went nova hundreds of years ago 😂

[@michakoeppenblues3669]

so what? may be we'll see the explosion TOMORROW

[@mx_ats]

People debating if it's about to die when it could be already doing supernova right now and we don't know it yet. Until the light register arrives to our neighborhood in a few years.

[@OneCanisLupus]

My eyes are never naked. My eyes always wear my eyelids.

[@KRYSJYN71]

I don't understand why people don't realise that it's in all probability part of the lifecycle of a red giant star, this is why it's dimming and brightening. Like the sun at the centre of the solar system. If anything it needs to be studied and recorded so that we can expand our knowledge of the cosmos.

[@_everything_at_once_]

Please upload Astronomy events of May

[@jamesnorthwood4851]

The poor bugger has probably already blown up

[@cecilionembraceofnight486]

This is once in an lifetime event when Beetlejuice explode to become supernova ❤❤❤

[@datnotme-1]

I want to work on the team that makes up funny acronyms for space things, AKA Funny Acronym Research Team or F.A.R.T for short

[@leetaylor5403]

They talk about betelgeuse in the present rather than what they should be doing is talking about the star in past tenths.

[@delvis008]

Is it entirely possisble that a star could be trapped within a star? I've pondered the the notion for some time now, especially when it comes to the odd behavour of Betelgeuse.

[@SpaceMystery9]

It's fascinating

[@lisanidog8178]

Betelgeuse is 548 light years from us. Who knows how long ago it’s been boiling since it’s that far away. I mean we see light from galaxies that took millions of years to get to where we can see it. I’m not worried about Betelgeuse.

[@Invhenshun]

It’s time to make Betelgeuse-boiled-eggs!

[@wttw4942]

I think what you want to say is; "Something happened to Betelgeuse a long time ago!" Long before our great-grandfather was born. It happened to around 642.5 years ago to be more exact. It looks like it might have exploded in many pieces.

[@Sewer.R4tz]

New drinking game: take a shot for very time he says Betelgeuse or red super giant

[@cush6827]

US-made documentaries are so weird

[@137lancedark]

Thanks for the info that it can't be observe using JWST 😁