Questions tagged [betelgeuse]
Questions about α Orionis, the red supergiant star located in the "shoulder" of the constellation Orion.
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How far from Betelgeuse is its habitable zone?
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant or hypergiant in the constellation Orion. It is one of the biggest and brightest stars seen from the Earth, and is expected to soon go supernova. The habitable zone, or ...
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What's the correct distance to Betelgeuse? [duplicate]
Reading [1], [2] and this smartphone app[3], I'm getting different answers to the question.
The smartphone app is stating 427ly. [1] states approx. 700 ly, and [2] states approx. 724ly.
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Do stars have "radio photospheres"? Are they different from their optical photospheres?
Comments below What is the maximum distance measurable with parallax? discuss challenges associated with parallax measurements of Betelgeuse and link to Wikipedia’s Betelgeuse; Distance measurements ...
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What will it finally take to accurately measure the distance to Betelgeuse?
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What equipment and techniques were used to study Betelgeuse's diameter in 1920?
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How can the radius of a star be measured using parallax?
The radius of Betelgeuse was measured using parallax. From the Wikipedia article:
the estimated parallax from the Hipparcos mission was 7.63±1.64 mas, yielding an estimated radius for Betelgeuse of ...
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Betelgeuse problem
I've been given this problem:
(a) A telescope is required to image an area of the sky of angular size 1 arc second onto a 10 mm square CCD. What focal length must the telescope mirror have to fully ...
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Why does titanium oxide around Betelgeuse produce this particular sawtooth-shaped absorption spectrum?
Betelgeuse Just Isn’t That Cool: Effective Temperature Alone Cannot Explain the Recent Dimming of Betelgeuse suggests that the recent dimming might be caused by increased optical absorption by dust ...
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What star is the closest to Betelgeuse?
Based on this answer, I should be able to figure out this question, if I know the distance between Betelgeuse and its nearest neighbor. So what is Betelgeuse's nearest neighbor?
I do mean the ...
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When Betelgeuse goes supernova, will the explosion hit any neighboring stars?
There is evidence Betelgeuse might go supernova "soon". Are there any stars in the vicinity of Betelgeuse that are close enough that they will be hit by the explosion of this supernova? What would be ...
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Would the Event Horizon Telescope be able to produce a superior image of Betelgeuse?
Current images of Betelgeuse are already amazing, but I was wondering if the EHT could be able to make a significantly better image, given that Betelgeuse is pretty big and pretty bright?
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Daily magnitude of Betelgeuse
I tried searching on the internet and could not find anything, so does anyone know if there's a website which tracks and shows Betelgeuse's magnitude daily? I just went out today and saw that it's ...
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Betelgeuse in false colors, is this common?
First, take the original Betelgeuse image from ALMA and remove red and green channels. Then boost the blue channel luminosity by x10 to x20 and a lot of detail pops out.
This is the resulting image ...
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Color index B-V of the dimming Betelgeuse
Using AAVSO light curve generator I have plotted V and B magnitudes of Betelgeuse in the past 150 days to see trend of B-V color index. If dust would be the cause of the recent drop in the star ...
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Will the nebula of Betelgeuse be visible to the naked eye? How bright, how large, how soon, for how long?
When Betelgeuse goes core collapse supernova it will leave a supernova remnant. Will it become visible to the naked eye? If so, in what time frame will it be visible. Will it be star like from the ...
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