Betelgeuse is Getting Ready to Go Supernova

• nemesis maturity Published on Oct 9, 2018
  The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is getting ready to go supernova, and when it does Earth will have a front-row seat. The explosion will be so bright that Earth will briefly seem to have two suns in the sky. The star is located in the Orion constellation, about 640 light-years away from Earth. It’s one of the brightest and biggest stars in our galactic neighborhood – if you dropped it in our Solar System, it would extend all the way out to Jupiter, leaving Earth completely engulfed. https://io9.gizmodo.com/5738542/earth…
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  Someday soon (astronomically speaking), it will run out of fuel, collapse under its own weight, and then rebound in a spectacular supernova explosion. When this happens, Betelgeuse will brighten enormously for a few weeks or months, perhaps as bright as the full moon and visible in broad daylight. When will it happen?
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  Probably not in our lifetimes. But, in fact, no one really knows. It could be tomorrow or a million years in the future.
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  http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/b…
  http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essenti…

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