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Astronomers simulated what humans will see on Earth when the star Betelgeuse explodes as a supernova sometime in the next 100,000 years.<\/em><\/h5>\n
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By Eric Betz<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 Published: Friday, February 14, 2020<\/div>\n
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A plume of gas nearly the size of our solar system erupts from Betelgeuse’s surface in this artist’s illustration of real observations gathered by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. European Southern Observatory\/L. Cal\u00e7ada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
If you stargaze on a clear winter night, it\u2019s hard to miss the constellation Orion the Hunter,<\/strong> with his shield in one arm and the other arm stretched high to the heavens. A bright red dot called Betelgeuse marks Orion\u2019s shoulder, and this star’s strange dimming has captivated skygazers for thousands of years. Aboriginal Australians may have even worked it into their oral histories.Today, astronomers know that Betelgeuse varies in brightness because it\u2019s a dying, red supergiant star with a diameter some 700 times larger than our Sun. Someday, the star will explode as a supernova and give humanity a celestial show before disappearing from our night sky forever.<\/p>\n

That eventual explosion explains why astronomers got excited when Betelgeuse started dimming dramatically in 2019. The 11th-brightest star dropped in magnitude two-and-a-half-fold. Could Betelgeuse have reached the end of its life? While unlikely, the idea of a supernova appearing in Earth\u2019s skies caught the public\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

And now new simulations are giving astronomers a more precise idea of what humans will see when Betelgeuse does eventually explode sometime in the next 100,000 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Astronomers used a software program called MESA+STELLA to simulate what humans might see when the star Betelgeuse explodes. They also included observations gathered during Supernova 1987A, which exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Jared Goldberg\/University of California, Santa Barbara\/MESA+STELLA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Supernova seen from Earth<\/h4>\n

With all the speculation about what a Betelgeuse supernova would look like from Earth, University of California, Santa Barbara, astronomer Andy Howell got tired of the back-of-the-envelope calculations. He put the problem to a pair of UCSB graduate students, Jared Goldberg and Evan Bauer, who created more precise simulations of the star\u2019s dying days.<\/p>\n

The astronomers say there\u2019s still uncertainty over how the supernova would play out, but they were able to augment their accuracy using observations taken during Supernova 1987A, the closest known star to explode in centuries.<\/p>\n

Life on Earth will be unharmed. But that doesn\u2019t mean it will go unnoticed. Goldberg and Bauer found that when Betelgeuse explodes, it will shine as bright as the half-Moon \u2014 nine times fainter than the full Moon \u2014 for more than three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this brightness would be concentrated into one point,\u201d Howell says. \u201cSo it would be this incredibly intense beacon in the sky that would cast shadows at night, and that you could see during the daytime. Everyone all over the world would be curious about it, because it would be unavoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Humans would be able to see the supernova in the daytime sky for roughly a year, he says. And it would be visible at night with the naked eye for several years, as the supernova aftermath dims.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time it fades completely, Orion will be missing its left shoulder,\u201d adds Sarafina Nance, a University of California, Berkeley, graduate student who\u2019s published several studies of Betelgeuse.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This comparison image shows the star Betelgeuse before and after its unprecedented dimming. The observations, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope in January 2019 and December 2019, show how much the star has faded and how its apparent shape has changed. ESO\/M. Montarg\u00e8s et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The Betelgeuse show<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s no need to worry about the stellar explosion. A supernova has to happen extremely close to Earth<\/a> for the radiation to harm life \u2014 perhaps as little as several dozen light-years, according to some estimates. Betelgeuse is far outside that range, with recent studies suggesting<\/a> it sits roughly 724 light-years away, well outside the danger zone.<\/p>\n

But the supernova could still impact Earth in some surprising ways. For example, Howell points out that many animals use the Moon for navigation and are confused by artificial lights. Adding a second object as bright as the Moon could be disruptive. It\u2019s not only wildlife that would be disturbed, either; ironically, astronomers themselves would have a hard time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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