Betelgeuse on the verge of exploding?

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AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 16, 2020 5:16 AM

Best I can figure is that some who write these things are lazy as fuck and don't have a curious cell in their brains.

Most folks don't GET the whole solar system is in a galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. Like the 1 mile wide asteroid which passed by Earth today. It was 15x the distance from the Earth to the moon. Zero shot at hitting us, this time. Yet we got videos of meteorites hitting the Earth, the extinction of the dinosaurs, etc... and for what?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

AURAPTOR

Thursday, February 27, 2020 3:56 AM

Update - So B was at 35% of observed brightness, but now has been steadily increasing to 43%.

Short and simple, no imminent super nova.

Dammit.

Still, interesting to watch a red giant go through its old age changes. Even if we're not gonna witness anything truly spectacular from it.

As you were.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:35 AM

Yes, interesting. And thanks for the head's up. If it had expired, folk would be whining that nobody told them beforehand.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Yes, interesting. And thanks for the head's up. If it had expired, folk would be whining that nobody told them beforehand.

Oh, you just KNOW that Trump and SpaceForce would have been scapegoated to no end!

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, March 1, 2020 12:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Update - So B was at 35% of observed brightness, but now has been steadily increasing to 43%.

Short and simple, no imminent super nova.

Dammit.

Still, interesting to watch a red giant go through its old age changes. Even if we're not gonna witness anything truly spectacular from it.

As you were.

So, ummmm....

Does this mean you were looking in the wrong direction when the big explosion happened?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8051079/Biggest-explos
ion-Universe-Big-Bang-detected.html

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/black-hole-blows-powerful-explosion-eve
r-seen-universe-12317304/

AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 1, 2020 1:58 AM

Too cool!

Seems no one saw this explosion. We KNOW about it from x-rays, and the Chandra observatory.

Honestly, I don't know enough about black hole explosions to comment, other than this one happened 390 MILLION light years away, and Betelgeuse is only 640 light years away.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, March 1, 2020 2:25 AM

I had noticed anther story about Black Holes eating galaxies, from the end of last month - but I didn't link it.

You think there will be video coming out of this explosion? The view must have lasted more than a few seconds - or not? maybe slow motion replay could work.

I guess this one made a void big enough to fit 13 Galaxies within.

Is it too late to blame Space Force?

With the variant output of B, I had considered if something was getting in the way. But I conjured that an orbiting body would have too quick a duration of eclipse.
But what if there is a black hole, or invisible explosion in between B and us? The light could be sucked away to the side, and the black hole could be unstable, causing variations.

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 4:05 AM

Still only @ 43% of normal brightness.

Feelin' pretty dim myself.

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 4:31 AM

Betelgeuse Status

@betelbot
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Apr 6

Now at 78% of my usual brightness! #Betelgeuse

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 10:02 PM

Speaking of Beetlejuice...

They rebooted it. The 2020 update takes place in Chicago.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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