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The bizarre dimming of bright star Betelgeuse caused by giant stellar eruption
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| 13 August 2020
| Mike Wall
Posted on 08/14/2020 10:18:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/14/2020 10:47:12 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks BenLurkin. Fun comments is right. :^)
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posted on
08/14/2020 10:47:27 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Seruzawa
And when it does blow for a year it’ll be at least as bright as the moon. The resultant nebula will fill the sky and we’ll eventually be in that nebula. Though that will take thousands of years. I love this stuff.
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posted on
08/14/2020 10:49:28 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: Red Badger
LAST TIME I SAW A MOUTH LIKE THAT IT HAD A HOOK IN IT!...................With eyes on the side of the head too?
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:02:45 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(whatever)
To: BenLurkin
This could explain the dark cloud over Seattle and Portland...
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:02:48 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: Red Badger
I believe Betelgeuse is the largest star in the universe.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:03:20 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: BenLurkin
To: fieldmarshaldj
The wide displacement of this woman’s eyes suggests to me she’s a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome adult.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:04:51 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: jmacusa
Well, it is the largest star in the universe in our part of the Universe! Everything else is irrelevant!......................
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:05:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
To: Pollard
Nah, it was a Bigmouth Bass, not a Flounder!...............
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:06:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
To: Leaning Right
“> Theyre guessing, of course... <
They might have to guess, but not me. This is definitely a result of Global Warming. So we must increase our efforts to control every aspect of everyones life.”
YEP. Gonna have to raise taxes too. /Dem
LOL
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:08:01 AM PDT
by
GaltMeister
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
To: BenLurkin
Or its a low grade micronova which the sun may be due for. Not enough to wipe out life on earth (if the sun) but enough to alter civilization.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:11:04 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: jmacusa
To: Seruzawa
It shows as a disk in a regular scope too, just a very very small one. It also doesn’t twinkle much for the same reasons.
Aldebaran also shows as a disc too, but, it is close enough that when it is occluded by the Moon, it doesn’t just disappear like most stars, it fades as the disc is covered.
BIG stars!
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:19:02 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: cicero2k
We know so little about the inner workings of stars (we have good guesses, but, that’s it) that we really need to start planning on seeding the galaxy pretty quick.
For example. Delta Scorpius was a perfectly normal star up until 2000, then it brightened considerably almost overnight and has stayed much brighter than it used to be. If the Sun did something like that, life may go on, but, not for very long, here on Earth.
Space is a dangerous place.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:25:46 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: fieldmarshaldj
That looks like something from The Shadow Over Innsmouth (H.P Lovecraft)...
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:31:48 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
To: Kickass Conservative
Deneb in Cygnus is also an extremely massive star.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:36:03 AM PDT
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jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: Red Badger
Not really. Check out Deneb in Cygnus.
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:36:42 AM PDT
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jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: jmacusa
It’s 2600 light years away!......
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:41:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said "There is no marriage in Heaven." ... That's why they call it Heaven............)
To: Kickass Conservative
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posted on
08/14/2020 11:43:59 AM PDT
by
Jagermonster
("God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16, NKJV.)
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