[Vince Ferrer]

It might sound like a nitpick, but whatever is happening to Betelgeuse that we are seeing today happened 700 years ago. I think it is an interesting thing to think about at least.

[Ken H]

"It's Showtime!"

[Mark17]

I read where it’s about 700 light years away, so does that mean if it explodes, will it be 700 years before we see it?

[DesertRhino]

Interesting trivia about Betelgeuse. It’s freaking enormous. If our sun was in the center of Betelgeuse, it would be big enough to swallow up the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt, and Jupiter.
That’s how big that red dot in that red star in Orion is.

[higgmeister]

I'm glad Humanity still has such a grand sense of humor to keep posting this story over-and-over, week-after-week, month-after-month.   LOL

[Nateman]

No mention in the article of the gravity bumps that LIGO and Virgo picked up. My theory is the star just added another layer of element formation. Perhaps it is making silicon in the core now. From what I’ve read about it a huge boost of Neutrinos will happen shortly before it explodes.

[Vince Ferrer]

Karl Jenkins - Benedictus

Stay with it.

[Ezekiel]

And what about KIC 9832227? Anyone ever recrunch the numbers?

"So something very unusual is going on,"

***

I suspect that a history report is about due. It had better be something very special. Herman the Kid, Bob Genghis Khan, So-crates Johnson...

[Redmen4ever]

By Betelgeuse going supernova “soon,” they mean 642 years ago. The light we are seeing from this star takes a while to get to us. Good thing, too, because were it 150 light years away or closer, we’d be devastated by such an event.

[fieldmarshaldj]

“Well... we’re waiting !”

[Celtic Conservative]

Guinan? What's the bartender doing in stellar cartography?

🖖

CC

[Paul R.]

Of the following objects careening through the Universe toward the end of their useful lives, which is the most dangerous to Earth:

A) Betelgeuse

B) Some unknown asteroid

C) Bernie Sanders

D) Joe Biden

[MountainWalker]

The red communist star however is alive and well in the Democrat race.

[HighSierra5]

It’ll probably happen when Orion is behind the Sun and we’ll miss it unless the new Parker Sun probe would be in position to take pictures.

[eartick]

has no more than about 100,000 years left to burn and could start its death throes

Well, I will not hold my breath on seeing this one.

[equaviator]

There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.

[Deplorable American1776]

A star exploded 700 years ago. Trump's fault!! 😋

700 years liberals on a planet called for higher taxes to combat the star exploding...like American liberals they failed...

[central_va]

I thought this was about Bernie. NM.

[Chengdu54]

I won’t hold my breath.

[minnesota_bound]

Betelgeuse
Distance to Earth: 642.5 light years
About 1000 times larger and about 10 times more massive then the sun.

Sizes. Our planet is tiny, our sun tiny compared to other stars.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/15/1f/10151f8dfe96d78170e5368881953b23.jpg

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sun-compare/en/size_comparison.en.png