Good luck dyson sphering that star :)
It's massive and very violent! It might be that this violence is causing the dimming by discharging massive amounts of dust and gas.
I hope it's a prelude to fireworks but that is unfortunately not probable.
It's massive and very violent! It might be that this violence is causing the dimming by discharging massive amounts of dust and gas.
I hope it's a prelude to fireworks but that is unfortunately not probable.
Our sun is much more stable.
I mean, you're probably correct, but given we have precisely one datapoint for life, it's a bit much to extrapolate further - there might be aeons-old silicon-skinned space whales congregating around Betelgeuse for their thrice giga-millennial spawning season, or something... . Probably not.
- ed
'thrice kilo or mega millennial' seems a bit less unlikely!
But you are right, nothing can be ruled out ;)
But you'd be stuck there forever, right? Diffraction means that the shadow only goes out so far before you're being cooked again by one form of particle or another.
One last fun fact: Betelgeuse is about 125,000 times brighter than the Sun in absolute luminosity.
The meaning of the so called "relativity of simultaneity" appears to me to be that you just shouldn't talk about simultaneous events with spacelike separation.