Betelgeuse can not sustain life and it _will_ blow up very soon in cosmic timescales. There is nothing we do to stop it blowing up so yes, I hope to see this event in my lifetime :)
Our sun is much more stable.
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.