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Author Topic: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years  (Read 3629 times)

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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2011, 10:08:35 pm »
Honestly? If that star exploded, it would be the end of all of us. The gamma ray burst would travel at the speed of light towards the planet, stripping the atmosphere, evaporate the oceans, burn everything less than 30 feet underground, and expose everything still alive to more than enough radiation to kill it.
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2011, 10:10:53 pm »
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #32 on: January 26, 2011, 11:25:43 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on January 21, 2011, 06:23:56 pm
the pic in the article makes the point that Betelgeuse is ****ing HUGE.
That was Venus compared to the sun. Here's a better picture.

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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2011, 04:44:42 pm »
Wow we got a wimpy sun. We should move to a planet around a better one.
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2011, 04:53:09 pm »
For the record, that diagram is made of screenshots from this video.
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2011, 06:14:57 pm »
Quote from: Criptfeind on January 27, 2011, 04:44:42 pm
Wow we got a wimpy sun. We should move to a planet around a better one.
Big stars do tend to go 'pop' much earlier then small ones, so doing that may just put us around a ticking thermonuclear bomb the size of the inner solar system...
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2011, 02:10:44 pm »
Would you like to play a game?

How about global thermonuclear sun?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2011, 02:34:03 pm »
Quote from: Grakelin on January 28, 2011, 02:10:44 pm
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How about global thermonuclear sun?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2011, 03:01:39 pm »
Actually Betelgeuse has already exploded. The light just hasn't reached us yet.
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2011, 03:39:48 pm »
Quote from: Nikov on January 28, 2011, 03:01:39 pm
Actually Betelgeuse has already exploded. The light just hasn't reached us yet.

When did that happen?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2011, 03:41:16 pm »
More importantly, how the hell would you know?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #41 on: January 28, 2011, 03:41:28 pm »
Not necessarily.  If the upper limit is 1000000 years from now.

It's around 640 light years away.  Which means the nova will happen 640 years before we see it.  It may have already exploded, but we don't know.
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #42 on: January 28, 2011, 03:44:32 pm »
If I remember correctly, supernovas typically leave nebulae behind.  How do you think that would look from so close?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #43 on: January 28, 2011, 04:03:05 pm »
Like a big cloud of dust?
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Re: Betelgeuse to go "Boom" in 2012, +/- 1,000,000 years
« Reply #44 on: January 28, 2011, 04:04:37 pm »
We could theoretically detect a missing star using gravity but we don't quite have enough precision in that field to detect it yet. And it would be a headache not only to get a machine to detect gravity in one direction, but then accurately pinpoint where the star is without being able to see where it is. What further complicates the matter is we don't even have an accurate measurement of the speed of gravity propagation either.

But it's theoretically possible!
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