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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: Crazy_Horse]
#26413961 - 01/03/20 09:32 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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So Perdue makes pharmaceuticals and fish sticks?
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: Near Dylan]
#26413962 - 01/03/20 09:33 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Because...uh, that's the part of the post I was primarily responding to. Use your head, Dylan...that was a stupid question.
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: feldman114]
#26413965 - 01/03/20 09:36 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Purdue Pharma Perdue chicken
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: Near Dylan]
#26413994 - 01/03/20 09:52 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Near Dylan said: 1234go was the type of kid to stand next to the teacher with his arms crossed as she lectures the class not to pick on him anymore
Here's 1234's school photo
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414126 - 01/03/20 11:00 AM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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koods said: Keen observers of the skies may have noticed over the past month a change in the constellation Orion. The once bright red giant star Betelgeuse is disappearing. Since October it has lost 60% of its brightness. Betelgeuse is a variable star, but this decrease is unprecedented. We know that the star has almost run out of fuel, and there is a small chance this dimming means the star has now run out of fissionable material and is collapsing. If this is the case, it may be on the verge of going super nova. If this happens it will become the brightest object in the sky except for the sun. The explosion will last for months and be visible day and night.
There's no indication that Betelgeuse is going to explode anytime soon. And stars don't do fission. Nor does that image actually suggest that there's anything lumpy about its photosphere. The fact that it's dimming doesn't mean that it's collapsing either. If anything it means that it's probably expanded (which would be a necessary step in a type-II supernova), but not enough that the material in it is going to bounce off of itself when it starts to collapse/contract again.
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods] 1
#26414284 - 01/03/20 12:29 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Awesome! Just got my daughter a telescope for Sinterklaas too
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: chibiabos]
#26414424 - 01/03/20 01:56 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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chibiabos said:
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koods said: Keen observers of the skies may have noticed over the past month a change in the constellation Orion. The once bright red giant star Betelgeuse is disappearing. Since October it has lost 60% of its brightness. Betelgeuse is a variable star, but this decrease is unprecedented. We know that the star has almost run out of fuel, and there is a small chance this dimming means the star has now run out of fissionable material and is collapsing. If this is the case, it may be on the verge of going super nova. If this happens it will become the brightest object in the sky except for the sun. The explosion will last for months and be visible day and night.
There's no indication that Betelgeuse is going to explode anytime soon. And stars don't do fission. Nor does that image actually suggest that there's anything lumpy about its photosphere. The fact that it's dimming doesn't mean that it's collapsing either. If anything it means that it's probably expanded (which would be a necessary step in a type-II supernova), but not enough that the material in it is going to bounce off of itself when it starts to collapse/contract again
The pajama physicist is back again
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414437 - 01/03/20 02:05 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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We have no reason to believe that it will go supernova within any of our lifetimes. And despite the recent oddness, there is still no actual evidence that it will go any time soon. Best estimates say 100,000 years from now. You should expect more weird stuff as it's only 100,000 years from supernova which is a very short time in the lifetime of a star.
You're just seeing the beginning of the slow death spiral that lasts thousands upon thousands of years.
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: nooneman]
#26414443 - 01/03/20 02:08 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Nobody said it was.
It could go anytime in the next 100,000 years. 2020 or 102020 are equally likely.
And records of it behaving strangely do go back thousands of years.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/australian-aboriginals-knew-variable-star-betelgeuse-098982
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414451 - 01/03/20 02:11 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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So fuck this thread. We dont have to talk about Beetlegeuse now anymore than we did 1000 years ago.
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414454 - 01/03/20 02:12 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Hypothetically, if it did go supernova, would Earth be affected by the blast? Or is Betelguese too far away for that?
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Too far
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414462 - 01/03/20 02:16 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414463 - 01/03/20 02:16 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Noice.
I saw a show showing a hypothetical situation of the Sun going supernova and Earth was destroyed 
Luckily that aint happening for billions* of years.
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The sun isn’t big enough to go super nova. It will just fizzle out and die leaving behind a cold dead mass of lighter elements
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414472 - 01/03/20 02:22 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Ive read it will turn into a Red giant as it starts to die which will consume the Earth. Right now the Sun is estimated to be of middle-age.
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When a star is in its main sequence it is fusing hydrogen atoms in its core which creates energy. Stars in their main sequence are referred to as 'dwarfs', the sun being an example of a dwarf star, all stars will spend the majority of their lifespan in this state before they exhaust their supply of hydrogen. After this stage most stars become giants, for example when our sun can no longer fuse hydrogen in its core it will begin to fuse hydrogen in its outer shell causing it to expand greatly and become a red giant.
https://www.solarsystemquick.com/universe/stars.htm
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods] 1
#26414478 - 01/03/20 02:26 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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Yeah, sucks to be earth in some billions of years. Get eaten by your mother.
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: koods]
#26414479 - 01/03/20 02:27 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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koods said:
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chibiabos said:
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koods said: Keen observers of the skies may have noticed over the past month a change in the constellation Orion. The once bright red giant star Betelgeuse is disappearing. Since October it has lost 60% of its brightness. Betelgeuse is a variable star, but this decrease is unprecedented. We know that the star has almost run out of fuel, and there is a small chance this dimming means the star has now run out of fissionable material and is collapsing. If this is the case, it may be on the verge of going super nova. If this happens it will become the brightest object in the sky except for the sun. The explosion will last for months and be visible day and night.
There's no indication that Betelgeuse is going to explode anytime soon. And stars don't do fission. Nor does that image actually suggest that there's anything lumpy about its photosphere. The fact that it's dimming doesn't mean that it's collapsing either. If anything it means that it's probably expanded (which would be a necessary step in a type-II supernova), but not enough that the material in it is going to bounce off of itself when it starts to collapse/contract again
The pajama physicist is back again
I sleep naked. 
Do you want me to share some actual literature on the topic so that you can bitch about how obtuse I'm being, with my educational materials?
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#26414482 - 01/03/20 02:28 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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 Good to see some posts from u LC I haven’t seen u around in a couple days
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Re: We need to talk about Betelgeuse [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#26414487 - 01/03/20 02:30 PM (4 years, 26 days ago) |
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What if it went champagne supernova?
The pajama physicists -- sounds like a really good band name!
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