Well, given the lifetime of stars being millions or billions of years old. It's possible that the actual supernova won't happen in our lifetimes. Scientists are just hoping it does.

There is a chance the supernova already happened but the light hasn't reached earth

This guy doesn't understand galactic timescales

... but now back to the Phlegraean Fields! 😁

@@heatherflaherty3360to be fair it’s a couple hundred light years away so it might take a couple hundred years

Or it did it hundreds of years ago and we'll see it soon

millions of stars have gone supernova that we still see as stars. doesn't really matter about the distance and light speed, the only way we'll really know is when we can see it

​@@littlegirlblue9829I desperately hope that we will see it soon. I really want to see a Super Nova in my lifetime

Not necessarily. It may have already gone supernova and we’ll see it soon meaning it went supernova 400-600 years ago.

634 years to be exact.

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Exactly what I was thinking! 😂👍

Hubble should be "open sourced' to EVERYONE for $150/hr. I have a few "experiments" to conduct from here, as my workstation is now the same power as a 1993 SGI 10k "Infinite Reality" system , used to confab the first cable modems. But that was just a day job....

​@@htos1avyou must be joking 😂

What's needed to study it, is a big mirror and sunglasses. Webb forgot his sunglasses. What would you expect from a NASA administrator?

It is being observed across many EM wavelengths, including the infrared. As a matter of fact, observations in the infrared during the dimming in 2019 (in the visible spectrum) remained steady, so the dimming wasn’t in the infrared, just the visible light part of the spectrum. If I remember, Hubble does have some capability in observing in 5he near infrared.

Perhaps we need a spacecraft that points at Betelgeuse at all times, streaming data constantly?

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*@tinman1955* Not only that, you have to catch quite a lot of moles to make up a proper serving of mole-asses. I have no idea why some folks prefer mole-asses on their flapjacks.

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indeed

Actually...you sound like a absolute cringey douche trying to make a point everyone already knows

It hasn't. We aliens oftern pass it. 👽

I don't think super giants go Nova

@@nighthawk0077 no, but Supernova. Thats a difference.

Beetlejuice is a giant waste depository for toxic waste generated by the artificially created stars used to power the hyperloop slip stream gates to traverse the galaxy by exiting local space time and traveling outside the curvature of the 3rd dimension of our universe and local time flow is stopped while outside the confines of space time, in the foamy environment of the higs field where the multiverse can be observed and quantified, before you pop your gravity bubble and the graviton waves push you through the space time membrane , back into our own universe that we can exist in. Most universes in the multiverse lack the necessary constants and energy needed to support biological so called life. Were we to accidentally poke a hole into the wrong universe, we would evaporate into basic sub atomic particles and cease to exist. So if could give me a lift to Saturn, I can gather enough materials and deuterium from the wrings to build my own gravity slip stream to access the higs field and get back to my dimension hopefully without being pushed into the wrong universe again. I'm tired of the clown universe of evil and chaos. It was fun the first couple millennium, but its still the clown universe and I hate clowns. Get me the hell out of here. I also can make your interdimentional gravity drive operate more effectively and prevent accidental disentanglment and quantum evaporation and other types of interdimentional errors and potential fuckery that can cause unwanted non existence and cascading universal ripples and mergers with unstable universes like clown universe. So come pick me up, and then we can go back to the universe of order, harmony, and swarms of winged nympomaniac super model hookers and portable blow job maidens . You know , those hot chicks with no vocal chords and a desire to be naked every time they see a star ship land. Clown universe sucks and has none of the great stuff found in the orderly universe we were robbed from. Get me out of here

Yeah, what you are seeing is caused by the Earth's atmosphere.

@@macs787is right. What you’re seeing is the distortion from the earths atmosphere. That’s what they mean in the song Twinkie twinkle little star. The only telescope I know of that has software to compensate for the atmospheric distortion is the one in Hawaii. Could be more but that’s the only one I know of.

There might have been a collision with a planet sized object heavy in iron

If I remember correctly, the iron producing phase is so fast you would say it is the beginning of the supernova, not any kind of warning of one.

@@michaelbarnard8529 Each phase of fusion the amount of time in that phase is shortened by 1/2. The fusion phase of iron lasts less than a day.

Yeah. The process is Hydrogen first then Helium to Carbon then Silicon to Iron and then Supernova.

me neither. It would ruin my favorite constellation. 😢

Don't worry, in betelgeuse's place will be born countless more stars, so called "children of betelgeuse," as I like to think of it

​@@arandomperson4718 You mean Beetel's juice?

@@omega311888Screw your constellation, gimme dat supernova!

You're not going to know or see it. Still 4 to 500 years further to go before we humans know for sure. But yeah, Orion's left shoulder...

​@@MadScientist267 Fr they should use Footballfield/cheeseburger instead

​@@YTDani75 As an aspiring Astrophysicist... I approve of this metric. Infact the whole world should use this.

@@MadScientist267 5 km/sec at a "Jupiter Orbit" would give you a PRECISE RPM. AND - (edited) Just to do some more math . . . . Jupiter orbits the Sun at 13 km/sec Jupiter takes 11.86 Years per orbit. Betelgeuse ROTATES slower, at 5 km/sec so 6.117 e-8 RPM Unless my calculator is broken. 🤔

@@MadScientist267 I know... I'm a Student... That was just a joke to go by... Have a good day pal

@@MadScientist267 Earth rotates once a day. That's not a velocity. "Earth spins on its axis at about 1,000 miles per hour (460 m/s or 1,600 km/hr)'. Venus spins so slowly that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East. So Mr. Scientist, how fast does Venus spin ??

We measure time and events from our perspective so we say is

I totally saw that. Think it was early February. It was most definitely pulsing to the naked eye. I watched it for like 35 minutes convinced I was about to see a supernova lol.

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I don't see the need to point out the speed of light when talking about distance objects like this. If we see a meteorite hit the moon, it's not really necessary to mention that it happened 12 seconds ago. There's literally no way of getting information faster than light

Don't see the need to point out the speed of light for every discussion about distant objects* I don't think it needs a correction, when we see it dim or something, that's when it dims, that's when it effects us.

No, because "when" depends upon where you are. Only the speed of light (causality) is constant, so the idea of simultaniety is meaningless over such distances.

@@taylorlatch2635 short sighted view 🤔😉😂

Betelgeuse can't live for 100 million years. It's life expectancy is up in 100,000 years maximum. The star will have lived for 10 million years

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@@zrglow4450instructions…..unclear…..been stuck now…..

Right, so saying „something weird IS happening…..“ sounds odd

This is true..were seeing light from along time ago. Example..they say there might be life on certain planets,..were that planet and star might be in it's time and space will be different from our perception..that's how far the space and time differ..which is then just a guess...

For me, the "now" is defined by my position in the universe.

It's a star. What happens to it that we see now could well take 650 years or much longer, with various phases. Remember that other stars are in more advanced states than Betelguese, like VY Canis Majoris.

Robert: I told you they'd come. Rosalind: No you didn't. Robert: Right. I was GOING to tell you they'd come. Rosalind: But you didn't. Robert: But I DON'T. Rosalind: You sure that's right? Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come? Rosalind: No. Robert: The subjunctive? Rosalind: That's not the subjunctive. Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet. Rosalind: It would have had to have been. Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.

May 1977! That movie was SUCH a smash hit-it DROVE all the Mars news (and the face ) OUT of papers and tv OVERNIGHT!!!

So, if we add 700 yrs to may 1977, = 2677AD, I’ll be gone, way gone😂

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@@paradisepipeco funny……

@@gregstuart9783 Alas, young Jedi..... Perhaps I have not lived in vain after all...... I appreciate the good word. Cheers.

Did someone genetically combine beetles with geese? I guess a type 5 could do that.

All the time

main sequence stars with iron in them usually become a black hole. Betelgeuse is a supergiant, so this comment makes so much sense.

Time always win!

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nah, hell in our universe already exists and is much closer to Earth. A certain evil twin of ours named Venus. Surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead (800°F, 426°C) a consistent state of dim dawn brightness because of the thick yellow sulphuric acid clouds blocking sunlight almost no wind at all on the surface, meaning the heat thrives even more thousands of volcanoes across the surface its day lasts longer than its year rains sulphuric acid, but because of the extreme surface temperature, it evaporates before even touching the ground an atmospheric pressure almost 100× that of Earth's no magnetosphere so it's in a constant state of bombardment from the sun's rays if you were to step on that planet without a protective suit, you'd be crushed, scalded with every breath and badly burned all over, and would die of asphyxiation due to its atmosphere being made up of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulphuric acid, no oxygen. you'd be dead in seconds

Anything that we see happening to Betelgeuse now, actually happened 600 years ago.

That light that reach us is hundreds and hundreds of years old...so quite possibly.

It's approximately seven hundred light years away So if it does explode in the near future technically. Yes, we would know until the light gets to us But it's still close enough to where we're able to get a decent ammount of data

He’ll be fine. He won’t panic.

Lol. That's around KIC 8462852

Y'all stop pickin' on Zaphod!

*_"Betelgeuse Is Boiling"_* is my favorite Tennessee Williams play.

I thought you said penetration

Much better *_"Day-O"_* than with *_"Zombie Jamboree"._* _(You might have to sleep with a light on if that happened.)_

Yes! From the official website of SNEWS, you can download the SNEWS app to get notified about the occurrence of a neutrino burst. Here's the link to that webpage: snews2.org/alert-signup/ Cheers :)

@@TheSecretsoftheUniverse Thank you very much!

@@TheSecretsoftheUniverse is there one for android?

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It's nearly impossible to detect Neutrinos from our own sun. Theory says they should be everywhere all the time but even then they are extraordinarily hard to detect. They tend to go right through just about everything including the detectors. In a numbers game determined by the inverse square law .. detecting Neutrinos from our sun is extremely difficult making detecting them from light years away .. well .. impossible.

At least it isnt one of the stars in the belt!

Yea but not in a way it starts getting Irregular shape and in a Agressive way

@@Taijitu527 We only have real data on just one sun. All the others, if any others exist at all, are just tiny streams of photons. Nothing real can be learned from them other than their frequency and direction of travel. What science says about other suns is based upon what we know to be true with our sun plus a little more or less based upon computer models. There is no way to determine the shape of Betelgeuse nor whether or not it displays aggression.

@@Deploracle ok

@@Deploracleoh nice? What school did you go to to get your starologist degree

@@Usnveteranstacker Starologist? All it takes is basic physics. The only physical evidence we have from Betelgeuse is light, and not very much of it. Astronomy describes the edge of the universe in more detail than Oceanographers describe the ocean floor. We have reams of data from the ocean floor but only a tiny portion has been explored. We have next to nothing from deep space.

I hear you saying that we have figured out that we can't figure it out while desperately hanging on to scientific knowledge? The only constant is change.. expect the unexpected. The only "problematic" process is prediction 💫

High Five! 🙏

Let's hope it went Super Nova 649 years ago so that we can observe a Super Nova next year in our sky! Observing a Super Nova must be so cool!

Supernova simulation of the dust being thrown out.

If a gamma ray dangerous enough to kill everyone on a hemisphere hit earth, being in a basement wouldn't save you. Gamma radiation is very persistent, and also if it were such a high amount of gamma radiation it would fry the ozone layer, in which case i'd advise you to stay miles underground for centuries until the ozone layer might have recovered.

probably not

Neutrinos would arrive a few milliseconds after the light from the supernova

So the super powerful telescopes in 1382 should have noticed it. Dang slackers of 1382.

It doesn’t matter how far away it is… what matters is what the light that is reaching us shows.

You’re nitpicking

maybe went nova hundreds of years ago 😂

so what? may be we'll see the explosion TOMORROW

If we're lucky. I sure Am hoping to get to see the final flashy photons of an uncontrolled fusion reactor, sent breakneck speed this away So Very long ago!! Yes, please! We'll have to be very, very lucky. I hope I hope I hope...

You certainly will be able to see it with the naked eye. It’s already one of the brightest stars in the sky. When it goes supernova, it will be so bright, you’ll be able to see it during the day for probably a few weeks. At night, it will be as bright as the moon.