To: PIF
Betelgeuse, according to astronomer Terence Dickinson is 430 lights away from year. luminosity=15,000. diameter -800.
84 posted on
02/11/2020 9:32:37 AM PST by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: jmacusa
The distance depends on the parallax method used as I quoted - there have been varying distances up to 1300 light years whose right and whose wrong is up to who you believe or not.
88 posted on
02/11/2020 9:46:49 AM PST by
PIF
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