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Will Betelgeuse Star Explode And Go Supernova?
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There is an entity in the universe known as Betelgeuse, and it is something that will explode one day. Join us as we explore everything we need to know about this force.
9. What is Betelgeuse?
Out in space in the Orion constellation, there is a very bright star in our night sky known Betelgeuse. To put it most simply, it is a red supergiant, and one that dwarfs many others stars in the sky. Such as the big star known as Rigel which it outsizes in a rather significant way. Mainly because this star is 1.3 BILLION kilometers long. That's basically three times the size of Rigel, which for the record is 97 million kilometers long. So yeah, definitely not a small star.
For a comparison, if some kind of cosmic event somehow dropped this massive star into our own solar system and replaced our own sun with it (which obviously won't happen but why ruin the moment here?), the mass of Betelgeuse would basically destroy everything from the point of the sun all the way until Jupiter more than likely. So you should be glad this isn't a thing that likely will happen...hopefully.
Betelgeuse is also the 10th brightest star in the sky overall, and it’s the 7th brightest star visible from most of the U.S., Canada, Europe and the majority of the Northern Hemisphere.
What's that? How big is Betelgeuse compared to the Earth? I'm glad you asked! The Earth is about 40,000 kilometers long in circumference. Which means that this supergiant is 32,500 times bigger than us. That's a lot. Like really, that's a lot of mass for a single star.
So yeah, that's Betelgeuse on a very basic level. But there is more going on here with this star than you realize. Including the fact that this is a star that is going to explode one day, and that's not something we should look forward to in one way or another.
8. The Star Will Explode, No Doubt
The life of stars is a very curious thing. As they burn very, VERY brightly in the sky, and that affects a lot of things around them. Take Earth for example. If our star burned less brightly, and thus less hot, our planet wouldn't be in very good shape. In fact, our star is quite literally perfect in regards to how far it is from Earth, the light and heat it emits, and even how much radiation it pumps out into space itself. But that last bit is another topic entirely. To burn like it does, it has a very particular balance of energy within itself. This balance is between the gasses it creates, and the gasses it burns.
This goes for all stars, but not all stars are created equal as you hopefully know. There are white dwarf stars, red dwarf stars, supergiants, neutron stars, pulsars, and more, there's a wide menagerie out there, but they work on very similar principles in terms of burning gasses for fuel.
For supergiants like Betelgeuse, the amount of energy that is needed to contain its massive size (1.3 billion kilometers to remind you) is a massive strain. Eventually, it's going to run out of fuel, and when that happens it'll start a process that'll very likely end up with it exploding in space. This is one of many "natural" fates that stars face, but for Betelgeuse, the things this could inflict are numerous.
And no, I'm not just referring to how our sky will be a little dimmer now that we can't see it after its .
So, when it comes to stars as a whole, they have a wait to "rebirth" themselves, or likely a more accurate description is to "recycle" themselves. Because a supergiant can go supernova, explode, and then the gasses that they leave behind over the course of many years can come together and create a new baby star. Thus throwing the whole cycle back to the beginning stages of star life. However, as I'm sure you've taken not of before, not all stars do this. Some stars straight up die, some even are able to compress themselves much quicker so that they become a new star almost instantaneously. And some are able to compress themselves in such a way that they can become new kinds of stars like Neutrons.
But will this happen with Betelgeuse? The honest answer here is no. There were a lot of people who felt that this could've happened to Betelgeuse given its life, size, and power. But eventually it was determined that after it goes Supernova and full-on explodes it won't have the power to become a brand new star. Still, it will be rather cool to see a SUPER bright star in the sky that is even more powerful than it is right now. But yeah, when it dies, it'll die. that's just how stars goes sadly.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:18 What Is Betelgeuse?
02:01 The Star Will Explode
03:35 Death And Life Or Just Death?
05:12 Will This Explosion Hurt Earth?
06:41 Comparisons To Our Own Sun
08:02 The Origin Of Betelguese And The Orion Constellation
09:56 Do We Have To Fear Sun Pulling Betelguese
11:34 When Will Betelguese Explode?
12:26 Star Power
13:00 Outro
#insanecuriosity #starexplosion #betelguese
9. What is Betelgeuse?
Out in space in the Orion constellation, there is a very bright star in our night sky known Betelgeuse. To put it most simply, it is a red supergiant, and one that dwarfs many others stars in the sky. Such as the big star known as Rigel which it outsizes in a rather significant way. Mainly because this star is 1.3 BILLION kilometers long. That's basically three times the size of Rigel, which for the record is 97 million kilometers long. So yeah, definitely not a small star.
For a comparison, if some kind of cosmic event somehow dropped this massive star into our own solar system and replaced our own sun with it (which obviously won't happen but why ruin the moment here?), the mass of Betelgeuse would basically destroy everything from the point of the sun all the way until Jupiter more than likely. So you should be glad this isn't a thing that likely will happen...hopefully.
Betelgeuse is also the 10th brightest star in the sky overall, and it’s the 7th brightest star visible from most of the U.S., Canada, Europe and the majority of the Northern Hemisphere.
What's that? How big is Betelgeuse compared to the Earth? I'm glad you asked! The Earth is about 40,000 kilometers long in circumference. Which means that this supergiant is 32,500 times bigger than us. That's a lot. Like really, that's a lot of mass for a single star.
So yeah, that's Betelgeuse on a very basic level. But there is more going on here with this star than you realize. Including the fact that this is a star that is going to explode one day, and that's not something we should look forward to in one way or another.
8. The Star Will Explode, No Doubt
The life of stars is a very curious thing. As they burn very, VERY brightly in the sky, and that affects a lot of things around them. Take Earth for example. If our star burned less brightly, and thus less hot, our planet wouldn't be in very good shape. In fact, our star is quite literally perfect in regards to how far it is from Earth, the light and heat it emits, and even how much radiation it pumps out into space itself. But that last bit is another topic entirely. To burn like it does, it has a very particular balance of energy within itself. This balance is between the gasses it creates, and the gasses it burns.
This goes for all stars, but not all stars are created equal as you hopefully know. There are white dwarf stars, red dwarf stars, supergiants, neutron stars, pulsars, and more, there's a wide menagerie out there, but they work on very similar principles in terms of burning gasses for fuel.
For supergiants like Betelgeuse, the amount of energy that is needed to contain its massive size (1.3 billion kilometers to remind you) is a massive strain. Eventually, it's going to run out of fuel, and when that happens it'll start a process that'll very likely end up with it exploding in space. This is one of many "natural" fates that stars face, but for Betelgeuse, the things this could inflict are numerous.
And no, I'm not just referring to how our sky will be a little dimmer now that we can't see it after its .
So, when it comes to stars as a whole, they have a wait to "rebirth" themselves, or likely a more accurate description is to "recycle" themselves. Because a supergiant can go supernova, explode, and then the gasses that they leave behind over the course of many years can come together and create a new baby star. Thus throwing the whole cycle back to the beginning stages of star life. However, as I'm sure you've taken not of before, not all stars do this. Some stars straight up die, some even are able to compress themselves much quicker so that they become a new star almost instantaneously. And some are able to compress themselves in such a way that they can become new kinds of stars like Neutrons.
But will this happen with Betelgeuse? The honest answer here is no. There were a lot of people who felt that this could've happened to Betelgeuse given its life, size, and power. But eventually it was determined that after it goes Supernova and full-on explodes it won't have the power to become a brand new star. Still, it will be rather cool to see a SUPER bright star in the sky that is even more powerful than it is right now. But yeah, when it dies, it'll die. that's just how stars goes sadly.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:18 What Is Betelgeuse?
02:01 The Star Will Explode
03:35 Death And Life Or Just Death?
05:12 Will This Explosion Hurt Earth?
06:41 Comparisons To Our Own Sun
08:02 The Origin Of Betelguese And The Orion Constellation
09:56 Do We Have To Fear Sun Pulling Betelguese
11:34 When Will Betelguese Explode?
12:26 Star Power
13:00 Outro
#insanecuriosity #starexplosion #betelguese
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