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If Betelgeuse were too close to Earth, the eventual supernova could cause an extinction here on Earth. However, even at 530 light-years distance, our planet will still be safe from the eventual ...
Map showing various supernova candidates, most of which are within one kiloparsec from the Solar System. [1] This is a list of supernova candidates, or stars that are believed to soon become supernovae. Type II supernova progenitors include stars with at least 8~10 solar masses that are in the final stages
Found in the constellation Orion, Betelgeuse is extremely bright, especially considering that it’s roughly 650 light-years from Earth (though, it does have a radius 1,000 times bigger than the Sun).
However, the first dredge-up occurs soon after a star reaches the red supergiant phase and so this only means that Betelgeuse has been a red supergiant for at least a few thousand years. The best prediction is that Betelgeuse has already spent around 40,000 years as a red supergiant, [18] having left the main sequence perhaps one million years ago.
To answer your question without getting drawn into a discussion, yes, uncertainties in the lifetime remaining to Betelgeuse make it possible that the time to supernova as observed from Earth is less than its light-time distance, and so the explosion may have "already" happened. — BillC talk 08:21, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
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 ...
A number of close or well-known stars have been identified as possible core collapse supernova candidates: the high-mass blue stars Spica and Rigel, [240] the red supergiants Betelgeuse, Antares, and VV Cephei A; [241] [242] [243] the yellow hypergiant Rho Cassiopeiae; [244] the luminous blue variable Eta Carinae that has already produced a ...
Gamma ray and optical (visible light) light curves for the pulsar, adapted from Spolon et al. (2019) [3]. Vela is the brightest pulsar (at radio frequencies) in the sky and spins 11 times per second [4] (i.e. a period of 89.33 milliseconds—the shortest known at the time of its discovery) and the remnant from the supernova explosion is estimated to be travelling outwards at 1,200 km/s (750 mi ...