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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 ...
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 ...
In late 2019 and early 2020, Betelgeuse blew its top. Literally. Around that time the famous bright star marking the right shoulder of Orion suddenly started dimming, dropping to about half its ...
Astronomers pointed powerful telescopes at the red giant star Betelgeuse, confirming theories that the star had not almost exploded a few years ago, but it did experience a dimming event.
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]
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
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 ...
Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes.With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, [2] it is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere.