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Strangely Behaving Red Supergiant Betelgeuse Smaller and Closer Than First Thought – SciTechDaily
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an international team of researchers….
Betelgeuse illustration. Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI)
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an international team of researchers.
The study, led by Dr. Meridith Joyce from The Australian National University (ANU), not only gives Betelgeuse a new lease on life, but shows it is both smaller and closer to Earth than previously thought.
Dr. Joyce says the supergiant — which is part of the Orion cons…
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