Betelgeuse Supernova?

[Intense]

We are a group of Portuguese students looking for specific information about supernova, such as:

-Who found/ discovered that;
-Where i t is in relation to earth and the Sun its dimension;
-Can it be dangerous to, mankind in a mean future?
-Is it a real star or just a common phenomenon in tears of a galaxy?

We would really appreciate your valuable help. Can you do that, PLEASE?

Supernova

 

[uscitizen]

They symbol on Subaru is Orion.
Coincidence?

 

[Dr.House]

The galaxy is on Orion's belt.....

 

[American Horse]

They symbol on Subaru is Orion.
Coincidence?

Nice call USC, but no banana

Subaru is actually a Japanese word for "Pleiades" which is near Orion but is not O; it is in Taurus. Pl is commonly called The Seven Sisters; it is an open star cluster containing about 67 stars, but Subaru is capitalizing on the fact that about 6 are naked eye visible.

Here's the Plieades

FACTBOX-Five facts about Subaru-maker Fuji Heavy Industries | Reuters

Subaru Logo

 

[uscitizen]

Ohh my misunderstanding. I apoligize and admit to being wrong.
It is the last time I will ever believe anything Glen Beck says

 

[American Horse]

Ohh my misunderstanding. I apoligize and admit to being wrong.
It is the last time I will ever believe anything Glen Beck says

USC, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while...

 

[rdean]

One day, all of the stars will go dark. The fate of the Universe.

 

[Jeremy]

We are a group of Portuguese students looking for specific information about supernova, such as:

-Who found/ discovered that;
-Where i t is in relation to earth and the Sun its dimension;
-Can it be dangerous to, mankind in a mean future?
-Is it a real star or just a common phenomenon in tears of a galaxy?

We would really appreciate your valuable help. Can you do that, PLEASE?

I did more than discover it. I created it, thus, I will destroy it.

I have yet to decide on the level of severity my destruction of it will have on Earth.

 

[American Horse]

One day, all of the stars will go dark. The fate of the Universe.

On the way to that fateful event, which will have no observors, the galaxies will distance themselves from one another to such an extent that the only stars which would be visible within our own galaxy will be inside the galaxy's own limits, blinking out one at a time.

And much earlier, in only about 3-billion years our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy (M-31). Still, when that happens, even though our galaxy contains 100-billion+ stars and Andromeda contains 200-billion+ stars, it is unlikely that even one of those many billions of stars will collide with another.

 

[daveman]

You know........the Magi followed a very bright star when Yeshua was born.

Wonder if Betelgeuse going supernova is going to be the herald of His return?

Ought to give something for the rapture myth believers to play with............

I read a short story once in one of the science fiction monthlies about an expedition to a star that had flared violently sometime in the past, destroying the civilization on the Earthlike planet in the system.

They determined when the flare happened, and the time it would have taken the light to get to Earth, and discovered it was the star of Bethlehem.

 

[daveman]

fuck, there goes Orion, his right shoulder, gone. ......they gonna rename it?

Rotator cuff? Damn, that hurts.

 

[daveman]

fuck, there goes Orion, his right shoulder, gone. ......they gonna rename it?

 

[daveman]

We are a group of Portuguese students looking for specific information about supernova, such as:

-Who found/ discovered that;
-Where i t is in relation to earth and the Sun its dimension;
-Can it be dangerous to, mankind in a mean future?
-Is it a real star or just a common phenomenon in tears of a galaxy?

We would really appreciate your valuable help. Can you do that, PLEASE?

I did more than discover it. I created it, thus, I will destroy it.

I have yet to decide on the level of severity my destruction of it will have on Earth.

Gozer? Is that you?

 

[waltky]

Earth To Get Second Sun...

Earth 'to get second sun' as supernova turns night into day
22nd January 2011 - The Earth could soon have a second sun, at least for a week or two.

The cosmic phenomenon will happen when one of the brightest stars in the night sky explodes into a supernova. And, according to a report yesterday, the most stunning light show in the planet’s history could happen as soon as this year. Earth will undoubtedly have a front row seat when the dying red supergiant star Betelgeuse finally blows itself into oblivion. The explosion will be so bright that even though the star in the Orion constellation is 640 light-years away, it will still turn night into day and appear like there are two suns in the sky for a few weeks. The only real debate is over exactly when it will happen. In stellar terms, Betelgeuse is predicted to crash and burn in the very near future. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to rush out and buy sunglasses.

Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, claimed yesterday that the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years. ‘This old star is running out of fuel in its centre,’ Dr Carter told te Austalian website news.com.au. ‘This fuel keeps Betelgeuse shining and supported. When this fuel runs out the star will literally collapse in upon itself and it will do so very quickly. ‘This is the final hurrah for the star. It goes bang, it explodes, it lights up - we’ll have incredible brightness for a brief period of time for a couple of weeks and then over the coming months it begins to fade and then eventually it will be very hard to see at all,’ he added. The Internet is abuzz with doomsday theories linking the supernova to the Mayan calendar’s prediction of an Armageddon in 2012, fuelled by the association of the word ‘Betelgeuse’ with the devil.

But experts claimed that even if the big bang is looming, it will still happen way too far from Earth to do us any harm. ‘When a star goes bang, the first we will observe of it is a rain of tiny particles called nuetrinos,’ said Dr Carter. ‘They will flood through the Earth and bizarrely enough, even though the supernova we see visually will light up the night sky, 99% of the energy in the supernova is released in these particles that will come through our bodies and through the Earth with absolutely no harm whatsoever.’ When it happens, the Betelgeuse supernova will almost certainly be the most dramatic ever seen. It is the ninth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest in the constellation of Orion, outshining its neighbour Rigel – or Beta Orionis – only very rarely. It’s distinct orange-red colour makes it easy to spot in the night sky. If it was at the centre of our solar system, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt, wholly engulfing Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Earth.

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Uncle Ferd says if ya live in a mobile home ya got nothin' to worry `bout `cause the deadly space rays can't penetrate the metal siding, but he gonna be wearin' his tin-foil hat anyway.

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know........the Magi followed a very bright star when Yeshua was born.

Wonder if Betelgeuse going supernova is going to be the herald of His return?

Ought to give something for the rapture myth believers to play with............

I read a short story once in one of the science fiction monthlies about an expedition to a star that had flared violently sometime in the past, destroying the civilization on the Earthlike planet in the system.

They determined when the flare happened, and the time it would have taken the light to get to Earth, and discovered it was the star of Bethlehem.

Yep. I read that one. I think they turned it into either a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode as well.

 

[syrenn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqV7KMjw9jY&feature=related

Very nice bones, thanks

 

[uscitizen]

Orion the Huntsman this means that Huntsman will be president in 2012?

 

[American Horse]

Just for the record, if it does happen to go, it won't be the end of the world.
Assuming that it's more or less comparable to the crab supernova, taking the brightest magnitude estimate for that (-7 or so), and allowing for Betelgeuse being 12 times closer, that would put a Betelgeuse supernova at about magnitude -12.5. That's just about the brightness of the full moon. So, it would be truly spectacular to see, especially because it will be a point of light, unlike the apparent size of the moon, about the size of the sun. But it will be nowhere near the "second sun" that doomsayers are suggesting. It does remain as a target of interest as its swelling shrinking does lend an 'any minute' look to it.

If and when it does happen, we'll count ourselves lucky to get to see it in our lifetimes, rather than bemoaning the end of humanity as the Earth burns under its glare.

Comparisons of it with our own star-solar-system are useful as descriptors of scale, but of little other meaningful value.