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To: MtnClimber

I’m really hoping that Betelgeuse goes supernova during my lifetime so I get to see the process and its aftermath. Or to be more precise, I hope that it has already happened in the last several hundred years - however many light years distance Betelgeuse is from Earth.


19 posted on 08/15/2020 8:31:52 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Betelgeuse is 642 light years distant from Earth. I also think it would be interesting to see it go bang!


23 posted on 08/15/2020 8:38:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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