Betelgeuse is dying!

bwanie

Nooo i'm not talking about Micheal Keaton.

Betelgeuse was one of the first megasize stars i learned about, alongside A9 and Canis Majoris.

Here you go you magnificent ball of gas, you were stellar:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdSnREyPRM

Chall

Poor Betelgeuse, died 642 years ago and we're only now noticing.

bwanie

Man this feels even worse then Haleys comet disintegrating after its last 1 or 2 passes.

bwanie

Chall wrote: »

Poor Betelgeuse, died 642 years ago and we're only now noticing.

i know but to see it unfolding makes it ...more real? i mean everything is guided by tsl...

Chall

I can't watch with sound right now, how do they know it's going supernova? Is it already started? I assumed it would be an instantaneous thing

Raijin Quickfoot

Fucking hell I thought this was about Michael Keaton!

Don’t do that!!

bwanie

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

Fucking hell I thought this was about Michael Keaton!

Don’t do that!!

You deserve that for whatever it was you shat my way in EPYC.

(j/k i fixed it)

bwanie

Chall wrote: »

I can't watch with sound right now, how do they know it's going supernova? Is it already started? I assumed it would be an instantaneous thing

No mang... like just how whales look when jumping and diving...when shit gets big enough EVERYTHING takes time.

I needed anime to post.

retweet if you are a real geusehead

Raijin Quickfoot

bwanie wrote: »

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

Fucking hell I thought this was about Michael Keaton!

Don’t do that!!

You deserve that for whatever it was you shat my way in EPYC.

(j/k i fixed it)

You know what…this is fair.

Mortal Sky

Yaknow, I knew we knew this was a distinct possibility in our lifetime but it's wild to see it actually happen

Athenor

I thought they said it was just dimming and was a cycle?

Edit: Quick! Point hubble and JWST at it!

Darmak

I mean, the livestream linked has been going since April so what makes it likely for us to see it go nova any time soon?

BahamutZERO

Darmak wrote: »

I mean, the livestream linked has been going since April so what makes it likely for us to see it go nova any time soon?

oh, have I been pranked, I got all excited

Athenor

BahamutZERO wrote: »

Darmak wrote: »

I mean, the livestream linked has been going since April so what makes it likely for us to see it go nova any time soon?

oh, have I been pranked, I got all excited

I noticed that too. The pinned comment is from last night...

BahamutZERO

that channel looks kind of shady in general

Athenor

Aaand... it rolled over to 30 minutes without hesitating or anything, which means it is a pointless counter.

I have been rickrolled, but at least the music was nice.

Knight_

Every time the counter gets to zero it just resets. It’s the supernova version of random Instagram ads where the product is only on sale for the next hour, forever

astrobstrd

Nice fucking model!

Shadowfire

Is this another five minute crafts joint?

Dys

Here's the dude talking about how it's totally going to happen soon eight days ago, without very much visibly different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzU_3DfWyRw

I wouldn't exactly say sit around with the stream open waiting for anything.

bwanie

Nah the stream wasn't the point. But to even bear the grainiest of witness to the demise of one of the old gas gods is both humbling and embarrassingly scary (to me)

Uriel

Is it going to fry us

Darmak

bwanie wrote: »

Nah the stream wasn't the point. But to even bear the grainiest of witness to the demise of one of the old gas gods is both humbling and embarrassingly scary (to me)

Oh, so you're just saying that in general it's dying, whether it's now or 100,000 years from now

SanderJK

I'm a bit confused that a helium fusing star is supposed to go SN with so little warning. I thought SNs of massive stars happened after a carbon fusing phase, which while a lot faster than the C phase would still take a few millenia. I only did an astronomy minor and it was 15y ago.

BahamutZERO

From what I can search up, Betelgeuse is probably still millennia away from going supernova. "As Betelgeuse is still pulsing, the researchers determine that the star is likely early in the helium burning phase of its transition to a Red Supergiant and could likely go on burning for another 100,000 years until gravity wins entirely and the star collapses into a supernova." https://www.universetoday.com/150400/a-new-study-says-that-betelgeuse-wont-be-exploding-any-time-soon/

Gvzbgul

The beetle juice fandom is dying.

Repost if your a true beetle juice fan.

SanderJK

Hmm apparently it is fusing C and He at the same time and it is predicted to be really hard to see if further phases of fusion have already triggered.

ASimPerson

A naked-eye visible supernova in our lifetimes would be so rad. There were well-recorded visible supernovas in 1006, 1054, 1572, and 1604. Then none since!

Shadowfire

Darmak wrote: »

bwanie wrote: »

Nah the stream wasn't the point. But to even bear the grainiest of witness to the demise of one of the old gas gods is both humbling and embarrassingly scary (to me)

Oh, so you're just saying that in general it's dying, whether it's now or 100,000 years from now

That's all of us.

I needed anime to post.

not me

webguy20

Tallahasseeriel wrote: »

Is it going to fry us

Even if it does we won't have to worry about it for over 600 years.

Darmak

webguy20 wrote: »

Tallahasseeriel wrote: »

Is it going to fry us

Even if it does we won't have to worry about it for over 600 years.

Now you're sounding like a CEO

Darmak

I'm sorry, that was mean

Captain Inertia

Ah fuck

BahamutZERO

webguy20 wrote: »

Tallahasseeriel wrote: »

Is it going to fry us

Even if it does we won't have to worry about it for over 600 years.

when we find out it exploded is when the energy from it reaches us so no it will be immediate once we find out
I don't know if there will be significant impacts this far away or not though

Trace

Hey sorry guys I had to stop to top Betelgeuse up, don't worry it won't run out of fuel anytime soon.

So what are we talking about?

3cl1ps3

Searching on twitter and google/google news brings up absolutely nothing here, I think you got got.

Chall

Beetlejuice is blowing up, but it's the hit Broadway musical, not the celestial body

King Riptor

Um yeah the Witch of Envy killed him a while ago thanks to Subaru trapping him in his body

#pipe

When I was a teenager I heard somewhere that Betelgeuse could go supernova at any moment and for literally years when I was outside with a clear sky I would find Orion, find that bright red bitch above the belt and watch it for a while, convinced that I'd be actively watching it one day when it exploded.