Re: Betelgeuse going supernova in only a century or two?

2023-06-16 Thread Brent Meeker
On 6/16/2023 10:11 AM, John Clark wrote: There are good historical records of the variations in brightness of Betelgeuse going back about a century caused by pulsations in the star's size. In a recent paper astrophysicists made  computer models of Betelgeuse, and the model that best fit the

Betelgeuse going supernova in only a century or two?

2023-06-16 Thread John Clark
There are good historical records of the variations in brightness of Betelgeuse going back about a century caused by pulsations in the star's size. In a recent paper astrophysicists made computer models of Betelgeuse, and the model that best fit the data indicates that Betelgeuse is not in it's