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Two American navy ships were named after the star, both of them World War II vessels, the USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11) launched in 1939 and USS Betelgeuse (AK-260) launched in 1944. In 1979, the French supertanker Betelgeuse was moored off Whiddy Island , discharging oil when it exploded, killing 50 people in one of the worst disasters in Ireland's ...
The Sun, the orbit of Earth, Jupiter, and Neptune, compared to four stars (Pistol Star, Rho Cassiopeiae, Betelgeuse, and VY Canis Majoris) Overview Although red supergiants are often considered the largest stars, some other star types have been found to temporarily increase significantly in radius, such as during LBV eruptions or luminous red ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Betelgeuse is one of the best-known stars in the night sky, as well as the easiest to find. New examinations of this behemoth star suggest it is both smaller — and closer — than astronomers ...
Betelgeuse is an intrinsically variable star. ... (later named Mira) ... John Goodricke himself discovered Delta Cephei and Beta Lyrae. Since 1850, the number of ...
As Betelgeuse burns through fuel in its core, it has swollen to massive proportions, becoming a red supergiant, the latter phase of giant stars. When the star explodes, the event could be briefly ...
In Chinese, 參宿 (Shēn Sù), meaning Three Stars (asterism), refers to an asterism consisting of Alnilam, Alnitak and Mintaka (Orion's Belt), with Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, Saiph and Rigel later added. [22] Consequently, the Chinese name for Alnilam is 參宿二 (Shēn Sù èr, English: the Second Star of Three Stars). [23]
Betelgeuse: Rigel: γ Ori: δ Ori: ε Ori: ζ Ori: η Ori: θ 1 Ori A θ 1 Ori B θ 1 Ori C θ 1 Ori D θ 2 Ori: ι Ori: κ Ori: λ Ori: μ Ori: ν Ori: ξ Ori: ο 1 Ori ο 2 Ori: π 1 Ori π 2 Ori π 3 Ori π 4 Ori π 5 Ori π 6 Ori: ρ Ori: σ Ori: τ Ori: υ Ori: φ Ori: χ 1 Ori χ 2 Ori: ψ Ori: ω Ori: b Ori: c Ori: d Ori: e Ori: f 1 Ori ...