Betelgeuse, a massive bright reddish star in the Orion constellation, seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, 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. (AFP/NASA/File)
Algore would say cow farts and “global warming” is causing it. He’s weird.
SUVs on planets orbiting Betelgeuse are causing this.
Signs in the heavens . . .
in the same era Israel returned to the Holy Land and became a nation again in a day as predicted . . .
Who’d a thunk.
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Old age comes to all of us. Maybe Betelgeuse needs Viagra....
Old News... This happened 600 years ago...
However, we all may be dead tomorrow...
Film at 11
We need a tax increase because this is happening!
Then apologize to the star for America looking at it in the first place....
Compared to our Sun, Betelgeuse is the size of a basketball while our Sol is the size of a poppy seed.
It probably saw Helen Thomas naked.
Oh noes!! Betelgeuse needs a bailout!
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Basically, like all the other unprovable theories these scientists have concoted, this observation flies in the face of typical evolutionary style thinking.
The evolutionaries state that a star similar to our sun is in its early to middle stages of existence. As the star loses its hydrogen energy source in the nuclear fusion process, it begins to take on helium. When the helium becomes a substantial by-product, the star becomes a red giant. When the red giant runs out of hydrogen, the star will explode, leaving a white dwarf, that in turn may later become a black hole.
That’s the theory, anyway. This observation seems to make the theory bogus.
Could Algore’s next “great cause” be “Global Shrinkage”? I thought he had that one covered already...
How did the Seinfeld people miss the picture of George complaining about shrinkage?
“The distance to Betelgeuse is not known with precision but if this is assumed to be 640 light years, the star’s diameter would be about 950 to 1000 times that of the Sun. Betelgeuse has a color index (B-V) of 1.86 and is thought to have a mass of about 20 solar masses.[3]
It is likely that Betelgeuse will become a supernova.[3][19] Considering its size and age of 8.5 million years – old for its size class – it may explode within the next thousand years—if it hasn’t already.[19] Since its rotational axis is not toward the Earth, Betelgeuse’s supernova would NOT cause a gamma ray burst in the direction of Earth large enough to damage its ecosystem even from a relatively close proximity of 640 light years.[19]
A Betelgeuse supernova could easily outshine the Moon in the night sky.[19] It will likely be the brightest supernova in recorded Human history, easily outshining SN 1006. After it explodes, it will likely linger for several months, being visible in the daytime sky and lighting up nighttime skies in the Solar System for a long time, after which the “right shoulder” of Orion will disappear forever.”
>>>I see a grant for $ 6 trillion dollars to educate the rest of the species in the constellation that it’s our fault.
That or some Biblical non-sequitor seems to be becoming the standard FR reply to ANY science story. Personally if this phenomenon continues I want and expect the science community to study the heck out of it and determine if it does or does not portend the death of the star. Absent interstellar flight we would never get a better or cheaper view of such a rare occurrence.
Crap. Something else to worry about...global shrinking.
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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