Posted on 01/22/2011 8:58:26 PM PST by Red Badger
THE super-giant red star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is destined to explode, but maybe not next year as some recent news reports have suggested and will not be as bright as some predicted FoxNews.com reported Betelgeuse has already become a red giant, which indicates it wil explode and become a supernova. But experts say it is not likely to happen soon and it will happen far enough away that it wil not hurt Earth US astronomer Phil Plait noted on his blog that a supernova would have to be no farther than 25 light years away to "fry us with light or anything else and Betelgeuse is 25 times that distance" The story at www.news.com.au predicted that a giant explosion will occur, tens of millions of times brighter than the sun, and suggested the event could happen before 2012. The story quoted a physics lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Brad Carter, who predicted that when Betelgeuse blows, night time will turn to day for several weeks on Earth“This is the final hurrah for the star,” Dr Carter told www.news.com.au.“It goes bang, it explodes, it lights up - we’ll have incredible brightness for a brief period of time for a couple of weeks and then over the coming months it begins to fade and then eventually it will be very hard to see at all.” That story is helping fuel internet rumors and doomsday theories by confounding the impending supernova with the Mayan calendar's conclusion in 2012 - which some believe is a prediction of the end of the world. But there's no reason to think Betelgeuse will blow in 2012, Mr Plait explained, or even this millennium"It's hard to know just when a star will explode when you're on the outside," he said.
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*That* pose right there is what my biker friends wanted me to recreate for photos.
Buncha weirdos.
Ha.
He bought cheap property near there a long time ago in anticipation of the inter-galactic super highway.
He’s planning on building a strip mall just off exit 42.
He wrote it on a shovel and hit me in the face with it.
I always thought it one of their most hilariously understated and surrealistic gags....:)
Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
its truly amazing how God has orchestrated the stars as validation of Him!
I find the whole concept of playing tennis with a homicidal pudding named “The White Eat” to be quite Felliniesque.
At the very least.
[even Dada-esque]
The following is a screen cut from a Stellarium display...
Actually, at the moment, Betelgeuse is 427.47 light years away.
Slave Girls of Orion
The green is a little off-putting but, as they say, all cats are black at night.
Well thats nice to know.
So when Betelgeuse explodes Orion loses his arm pit?!!
Does this supernova make my mass look big?
Just one more problem inherited by Obama from the previous administration.
Exactly what I was thinking. If Betelgeuse explodes in 2012 we would not see it until 2652. If we see the explosion in 2012 its because the star actually blew up 1372.
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I hadn’t seen that sketch. LOL
Of course I spent the next hour after watching more of the same.
The pose looks fine to me. Of course, I'm a weirdo. I think it's because I had many *unusual* poses myself in my rebellious days.
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