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Betelgeuse Breathing
szyzyg writes "For the fisrt time ever astronomers have been able to observe waves and flows on the surface of a star other than the sun. Alex Lobel and Andrea Dupree managed to detect these flows on the surface of the supergiant Betelgeuse - the bright red star in the constellation of Orion. This star is so large that its radius is about the same as the distance at which the earth orbits.... i.e. about 150 million km. It's almost at the upper limit for stellar sizes predicted by Eddington "
Imagine...Betelgeuse naked and petridied. Where would you put it?!?!?! In my pants, covered in hots grits? Maybe.
BTW....this post is neither news for nerds or stuff that matters.
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Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but isn't Betelgeuse the brightest star in Orion? I couldn't remember the exact distance but I kinda remember reading about it when I was still into Astronomy that it is one of the few stars that we actually would have a chance of discovering life on with SETI type projects due to the relatively small distance (0 - 25 Light Years). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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According to the article, Betelgeuse's radius is actually closer to the distance from the sun to Jupiter, and it is the second brightest, not the brightest, star in that system. The usefulness is that the information will help people understand the assymetrical nature of the pulsing of super giants, which I suppose could have implications for other areas, what I don't really know
That's not true, it depends what you're looking for. Star-faring intelligent life will be interested in such an anomoly, and probably will send people/robots to investigate it closer. You're more likely to find life at interesting points than searching every single G-type star...
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