No, Betelgeuse Won’t Go Supernova in ‘Tens of Years’
The expiration date of Betelgeuse, a massive dying star about 642 light-years from Earth, is a hot topic in astronomy because of the star’s superlative size and its life cycle stage.Can the Government Change Social Media? | Gizmodo InterviewBetelgeuse is between 10 and 20 times the mass of our Sun, with a radius about 900 times greater. It’s burning quickly, and soon (in cosmic terms) will die. When stars die, they expel most of their material out into the cosmos in a remarkable explosion called a supernova. If the…