To: Red Badger
Setting our clocks by what we view coming from Betelgeuse? How many thousand light years away is it? That star could already have winked out, but Earth wouldn’t know about it for “how many” thousands of years? At least with OUR Sun, aka “Old Sol”, if something changes up THERE, we’ll know about it in about 8 minutes.
54 posted on
01/20/2020 1:39:50 PM PST by
Tucker39
("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: Tucker39
642.5 light years,.......... 😮
55 posted on
01/20/2020 1:42:22 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Tucker39
And it’s larger than the size of Mars orbit.
It’s the only star we can actually see as a round object, and not just a point of light...............
56 posted on
01/20/2020 1:45:37 PM PST by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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