Giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinking: study

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 6/9/09 | AFP

[GOPJ]

Absent interstellar flight we would never get a better or cheaper view of such a rare occurrence.Z

You're right - BUT NASA's too busy consulting with Al Gore about the latest crackpot theory to deal with this important wonder...

[SoldierDad]

LOL - I just couldn’t resist.

[Salamander]

Is that a fabric sample from MO’s next new “Fashion Queen!!!” outfit?

[6ppc]

supernova - should be a good show

It's only 600 or so light years away...that's awful close for a supernova.

[Salamander]

Then you won't mind coming over and getting this thing out of my cellar?

[SoldierDad]

Oh, but it’s so cute!

[Salamander]

....;D

[SoldierDad]

LOL - got me.

[Salamander]

;^]

[Lancey Howard]

Ahh..! You hurt my eyes with that picture.
Guess I shouldn’t have stared..

[SoldierDad]

One the other hand, with that thing in your cellar you won’t have much of a rodent problem ;0)

[Deb]

Crap. Something else to worry about...global shrinking.

[Salamander]

My ancient dirt root cellar is so creepy that even rodents won’t go down there.... :-o

[NormsRevenge]

Crap. Something else to worry about...global shrinking.

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Ouch. I’m headed for the jacuzzi. :-}

[SoldierDad]

Just damn! Okay, give me a window for when you want me to come remove the thing ;}

[SunkenCiv]

A massive bright reddish star in the Orion constellation has mysteriously shrunk by over 15 percent in the last 15 years and astronomers have not yet determined why, according to a study released Tuesday. Betelgeuse, considered a supergiant star, is so large that it would reach to Jupiter's orbit in our solar system. But at a radius of about five astronomical units, the star has shrunk in size since 1993 by a distance equivalent to Venus's orbit.

Thanks NormsRevenge.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

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[BenLurkin]

<>i>shrunk by over 15 percent in the last 15 years

It is getting ready to go nova. Isn't that how we have always been told it happens? First a contraction and then...BOOM!

[Salamander]

After it’s too cold for the snakes and ginormous spiders to move very fast.

[RikaStrom]

So, am I bad for reading that as Beetlejuice?

:-)