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  2. Betelgeuse - Wikipedia

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    Betelgeuse is a red supergiant that has evolved from an O-type main-sequence star. After core hydrogen exhaustion, Betelgeuse evolved into a blue supergiant before evolving into its current red supergiant form. [98] Its core will eventually collapse, producing a supernova explosion and leaving behind a compact remnant. The details depend on the ...

  3. Whiddy Island disaster - Wikipedia

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    About twelve hours after the explosion, Betelgeuse sank at her moorings in 40 m (130 ft) of water, which largely extinguished the main body of the fire. [9] In spite of this, rescue workers were not able to approach the wreck (the bow of which was still above water) for a fortnight due to clouds of toxic and flammable gas surrounding it. When ...

  4. Astronomers watch Betelgeuse recover after colossal blast

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    Just like the mischievous Tim Burton character of the same name, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse's head shrank. Scientists watched the star blast its outer surface into space in 2019, an ...

  5. Betelgeuse (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Betelgeuse, oil tanker destroyed in the 1979 Whiddy Island Disaster, Ireland USS Betelgeuse , a U.S.Navy shipname and list of ships by that name USS Betelgeuse (AK-260) , the last of the cargo ships in service in the United States Navy

  6. Water vapor - Wikipedia

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    Water vapor can also be indirect evidence supporting the presence of extraterrestrial liquid water in the case of some planetary mass objects. Water vapor, which reacts to temperature changes, is referred to as a 'feedback', because it amplifies the effect of forces that initially cause the warming. Therefore, it is a greenhouse gas. [2]

  7. Origin of water on Earth - Wikipedia

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    An additional 5.0 × 10 20 kg of water is estimated to exist in ice, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and atmospheric water vapor. [20] A significant amount of water is also stored in Earth's crust, mantle, and core. Unlike molecular H 2 O that is found on the surface, water in the interior exists primarily in hydrated minerals or as trace amounts ...

  8. Planetary nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    These features can be named after places associated with Io mythology, derived from nearby named features, or places from Dante's Inferno: Paterae Paterae on Io are named after fire, sun, thunder or volcano gods, heroes or goddesses or mythical blacksmiths. Valles Names of valleys are derived from nearby named features.

  9. TOI-1338 - Wikipedia

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    TOI-1338 is a binary star system located in the constellation Pictor, about 1,320 light-years from Earth.It is orbited by two known circumbinary planets, TOI-1338 b, discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) [2] and BEBOP-1c, discovered by the Binaries Escorted By Orbiting Planets project.