Night sky after betelgeuse goes supernova

Betelgeuse is approximately 700 light years away from earth and is 12 times more massive than our sun. It is expected to go supernova in next 100,000 years which is relatively soon in astronomical terms as it is just 10 million years old now. We won't be staying long enough to witness this spectacular event in night sky.🤩

When it will go supernova, it will become so bright that it will outshine a full moon and be powerful enough to cast shadows at night time😳

[SnailHatan]

When Betelgeuse does go supernova, it will be visible even in daytime for weeks. Wish it would happen before I die. That would be incredible to see so close to home.

Edit: People, I know how light works. I’m saying I wish the light from the supernova reached Earth before I die. I just didn’t want to go on a spiel about how it’s 640 light years away and it would have had to explode hundreds of years ago for me to see it. Didn’t think I’d have to explain it for all the tight asses.

[ccm]

Too bad queen Elizabeth will be the only person alive today to see it

Edit:This joke was made over a year before she died so RIP

[wisemonkey]

Orion won’t ever be the same without Betelgeuse. Wonder if it’ll still be recognizable as a figure of a person without the shoulder.

[mkruger]

We will probably feel a great disturbance in the force, like a million voices cried out at once!

[dj_nyx]

Two things that live in my mind rent free: A text from Ancient China. Descibes seeing the brightest star in the night. It aligned with a distant galaxy having a supernova. I think it would be fricken awesome to see.

I've also seen a red moon before. That was epic too.
My dad told me to come outside and look at the moon. We lived in a small flat and had no backyard, so we walked towards the road. The moon was the biggest I've ever seen. In that moment, a (Australian) possum with a baby on it's back crosses the wiring infront of the moon. It looked just like a picture. Trees both sides, the possums on the wire and a big, bright moon.

[davidlane]

They shouldn’t have said his name three times. Now he’s loose.

[lyly_lei_lei]

Betelgeuse’s supernova will be visible in the day, too, because of how bright it’ll be.

[NativeMamba]

I wonder if Betelgeuse had already went supernova but the light just hasn’t reached us yet??? 🤔 Our universe that we live in is very mysterious and that’s what makes the universe so amazing 🤩

[stefanschleps]

It could be going Nova right"now" and we wouldn't know about it for hundreds of years! 🍄😂💮
Space is so cool!

[dink]

600 years after Betelgeuse goes supernova :)

[justjeff]

Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse. Betelgeuse.
Now we wait...

[entity]

The thing I find so crazy is, that a star in the night sky could already have exploded like maybe 4 years ago but we won't yet see it cause the light has not reached us yet.

[shawnyfin]

Supernova can't kill Betelgeuse - only Saturn sandworms.. 🤷‍♂️

[noodles]

Spare a thought for all the alien planets who didn't make it ☹️

[stevenleslie]

Ironically, if we witnessed this today, it would mean the Star went supernova 642 years ago.

[rickt]

As a deer hunter, I look forward to seeing my old friend Orion in the early morning sky.

[hermannaxelschatte]

If only! I wish to see this in my lifetime

[angel]

I'll be somewhere between the galaxies and nothingness, when it goes supernova, recalling this day we comment here 😇

[raymondwhiu]

If betelgeuse was to go supernova today humans would not know about it for another 700 years.

[Dave-dm]

Betelegeuse could be a million years away from going supernova so the odds of it going over the next 80 years are pretty low.