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(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Betelgeuse
(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Betelgeuse
(JANUARY-2024)
Betelgeuse
- Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, will be eclipsed by an asteroid named Leona.
About Betelgeuse
- Betelgeuse is a red super giant star located in the Orion constellation.
- Leona, the asteroid is a slowly rotating, oblong space rock situated in the primary asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- Betelgeuse, located approximately 700 light-years away, is observable with the naked eye.
- Betelgeuse is thousands of times brighter than our sun and around 700 times larger.
- Its colossal size is such that if it replaced our sun, it would extend beyond Jupiter.
- Despite being considerably younger at 10 million years old compared to our sun’s 4.6 billion years, Betelgeuse is expected to be short-lived due to its mass and the rapid rate at which it’s consuming its resources.
- In 2019, Betelgeuse experienced a significant dimming when a substantial amount of surface material was expelled into space.
- This resulted in a temporary blockage of starlight due to a dust cloud, and within six months, Betelgeuse had returned to its previous brightness.
- Scientists anticipate Betelgeuse to undergo a supernova explosion within the next 100,000 years.
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