So? Do you think we'll see this happen in our lifetime? Who has the best chance to witness this stellar event (geographically speaking and I'm not asking about the obvious International Space Station or ISS)?
I'm guessing that this will happen when the NYC sky will be all cloudy and such.
Recent high-resolution photographs of the star suggest that it is changing shape, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory said in a news release on Valentine’s Day. Instead of appearing round, the star now appears squashed into an oval.
So? Do you think we'll see this happen in our lifetime? Who has the best chance to witness this stellar event (geographically speaking and I'm not asking about the obvious International Space Station or ISS)?
I'm guessing that this will happen when the NYC sky will be all cloudy and such.
If you miss it because of clouds...it will have to be cloudy for a very long time...at least a year. When it goes supernova (if it already hasn't) we will not see anything for about 700 years (it is that far away)...it will be an event that will be visible even during the day...for at least a year.
But if it went supernova 500 years ago...none of us will still be alive to see it.
If Betelgeuse were to become a supernova, it would become extremely bright and would likely be visible even during the day for a few weeks. The explosion would be visible from Earth even though Betelgeuse is about 640 light-years away from us. The supernova would outshine all the other stars in the sky and could even be visible from urban areas with a lot of light pollution.
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Sun 17 Mar, 2024 09:10 pm
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FredBquick
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Tue 26 Mar, 2024 03:17 pm
@Frank Apisa,
For this, I say time is more real than space. Everything we ever see or perceive is a matter of time, and whatever it is in distance through space away from the earth makes that more obvious.
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