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AMAZING NEW VIEWS OF BETELGEUSE COURTESY OF ALMA
Universe Today ^
| June 27, 2017
| David Dickinson
Posted on 06/28/2017 7:08:31 AM PDT by C19fan
Just. Wow.
An angry monster lurks in the shoulder of the Hunter. Were talking about the red giant star Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha Orionis in the constellation Orion. Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) gave us an amazing view of Betelgeuse, one of the very few stars that is large enough to be resolved as anything more than a point of light.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: alma; astronomy; betelgeuse; orion; star; stars
What an amazing image. Betelgeuse is a massive red giant star in the constellation Orion. If one is going to see a supernova during our lifetime this is the star that might provide that.
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:08:31 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
![](https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/potw1726a-580x580.jpg)
This orange blob is the nearby star Betelgeuse, as imaged recently by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA/ESO/NRAO>This orange blob is the nearby star Betelgeuse, as imaged recently by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA/ESO/NRAO
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:13:53 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
To: C19fan
What does it look like thru Hubbel?..................
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:14:30 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
To: C19fan
![](https://media.stsci.edu/uploads/image/display_image/394/low_print.jpg)
Betelgeuse is so massive, it's size is about equal to JUPITER's ORBIT.........................
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:16:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
To: Red Badger
What does it look like thru Hubbel?.................. Like looking at the sun with your naked eye.
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:23:33 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(How many ways do liberals hate the bible?)
To: C19fan
in before the michael keaton pic
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:23:48 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
But only just.
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:25:05 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: C19fan
Isn’t the Shoulder of Orion where Ray Batty saw attack ships on fire?
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:25:40 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:26:11 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
Don’t say its name three times!
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:27:43 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: IronJack
Any evidence of the great collapsed Hrung disaster?
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:36:42 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: C19fan; All
When I was taking astronomy in college our instructor told us that, in relative size, if Betelgeuse was where the sun is, it would extend out past the orbit of Mars!
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posted on
06/28/2017 7:46:49 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/28/2017 8:57:00 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: C19fan
“If one is going to see a supernova during our lifetime this is the star that might provide that.”
Nah, lone red giants do not become supernovas. If they are part of a binary system, they could feed their companion star and the companion could go supernova, but alone a red giant will just become a white dwarf.
To: IronJack
Isnt the Shoulder of Orion where Ray Batty saw attack ships on fire?
Yeah, right before he watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
Those moments were lost in time, though, like tears in rain.
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posted on
06/28/2017 9:28:54 AM PDT
by
farming pharmer
(www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
To: akalinin
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posted on
06/28/2017 9:35:26 AM PDT
by
IronJack
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