[C19fan]

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.

[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

What does it look like thru Hubbel?..................

[Red Badger]

Betelgeuse is so massive, it's size is about equal to JUPITER's ORBIT.........................

[teeman8r]

in before the michael keaton pic

[IronJack]

Isn’t the Shoulder of Orion where Ray Batty saw attack ships on fire?

[notdownwidems]

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!

[Boogieman]

“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.