What is the next star that will explode?

[R3AN1MAT10N]

Beetlejuice? Really? 

[TheCrimsonIdol987]

@R3AN1MAT10N: It's actually spelled Betelgeuse.

Just don't say it three times.

[azizbhai]

stay tuned? it can happen thousands of years from now...

[rappernaheem]

Thanks for the info, Subbed :)

[EVLWNS]

Whoa, I just freaked out for a second - those shelves, the colour of the wall and those doors made me think that this was recorded in my bedroom.

[gsmonks]

It's "which" star, not "what" star.

The ring is probably formed as the star reaches the point when iron is produced in its core. The instant that happens . . . KABLOOEY!

[johnrcoben]

@gsmonks that's not right at all

[gsmonks]

@johnrcoben Sure it is. Iron is far too stable to exist conjoined to the seething interior of a star. The point at which iron is manufactured is also the point at which the star blows up.

[johnrcoben]

@gsmonks Despite repeating yourself, you're still not accurate according to my textbook.

[gsmonks]

@johnrcoben H'm . . . well . . . I'd get an up-to-date textbook if I was you. 

[johnrcoben]

@gsmonks Riiiight...

[wen790]

MOON HOAX

THIS GUY IS A FAKE AND WORKS FOR NASA

DONT BELIEVE SHIT HE SAYS

[Huttate1]

My sweer lord is he ugly.

[wen790]

@Huttate1 ----HA HA HA HA HA......YOUR FUNNY but honestly right

[DaMatta11]

Tired of your face..! couldn't you have put some videos or pictures?

[mt991]

Not really...idea may be right in a sense but some stars has a periodic behavior and usually get back to its previous condition....nobody knows what is going to be happened..

[F2DGraphics]

If we know the star has at LEAST 20,000 years (prediction) to live, cant we back track the ring of gas around Sher 25 now and see how long it took to shed that gas into a ring? So we can approximately guess how long it has to live? Since the star its self is 20,000ly it must have exploded now.

[mt991]

there are some controversies in measuring the size of Betelgeuse accurately. We do not know about the actual size of Betelgeuse yet. Or changing size of Betelgeuse may be periodic phenomena like another variable star Mira. If it is periodic then we have to wait for thousand years from now.

Eta Carinae was brightened as second brightened star in the sky in 1870 and then it dimmed. It is brighting again these which may be also a periodic phenomena.

So lets see what will happen.

[forgottenmemories63]

Damn, Would be the Glimpse of a Lifetime if it ever appears to be anywhere as bright as the Moon or the Sun.I just hope it happens soon and that it can be seen with the naked eye and not some super big lame telescope =(

[mt991]

There is no way to rise betelgeuse supernova from the west after explosion ..as the earth is still moving in the same direction....

[anditusha28]

Written in the Quran, one of the signs to the destruction of the earth is sunrise on the opposite side,

[mt991]

Betelgeuse explosion causes huge amount of neutinos passing through the earth. These neutrinos will merge with neutrinos coming from sun. This will heat up the earth core which will result earthquake and super volcano.

What a great plot for making movie. I wanna make this movie in 2013 and enjoy myself with a cup of tea at my home.

[spand3244]

Oh great brother.

I will explode very soon......around 20 000 years periode from now.. You know that you have great since of humor, didn't you know that? :-)

The humanity wouldn't probably survive more than 50 years from now. Because there stupidity.

[MiSenigmatic]

are we in any danger??

[saurabhs1996]

betelgeuse has already exploded and has become a neutron star but light hasnt come frm betelguese yet 2 earth

[mdrosser]

The first time i heard about Betelgeuse was at the Creation Mesuem in Cincinati , Ohio

[keklingkia]

The Mayan Calendar pointed to a specific date: 21st Dec. 2012 as something spectacular is going to happen. Be it a gigantic earth quake that may sink the whole of North America or Europe or simply some flittering bright light from the night sky that will be witnessed by earthlings. By simple arithmetic, that "Beetle Juice" star, some 640 light years away, might had exploded some 18,629 years ago for earthlings to witness the event on that December date(?)

[maw19992]

it is curious that a star that is about to blow up its still 20000 years of blowing up

[fizaanTech]

@maw19992 That's nothing in Geologic time, which is why we say it's about to blow up

[ZenOneMike]

what about vy majoris...that thing is huuuuuuuuuge. theoritcally speaking, if vy majoris explodes, obviously this star is goin to turn into a black hole, would earth feel the effects of it? thanks. keep up the good work.

[Gattberserk]

@ZenOneMike

The supernova of VY Canis Maj will be nowhere near as spectacular as Betelgeuse supernova as seen from Earth due to the distance involved. We talking about a distance of 4900 ly and 640 ly respectively.

Also no one really knows what is the next star that blows up, Eta Carina and Rho Cassiopeiae could jolly well blew up earlier. (Eta Carina supernova will be the most impressive, with a speculated light output of 50 billions Suns, tho it will appear dimmer than Betelgeuse's SN)

[winterstellar]

Great! I'll start watching it tonight! No more than 20 000 years? Awesome:)

[juniorgeneric]

I wonder how long it will be before the Red Hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris goes Hypernova.

[SonniTheDog]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM beetle juice

[obiwan042]

i believe the star is 20,000 light years away

[mrlim1434]

why do we talk about hundred and thousand of years when average human life is just 90? whats the point no one could ever see after 90years.

[glemmstengal]

@mrlim1434 yeah screw the future, people in the future don't matter

[keklingkia]

@mrlim1434..... A Buddhist believes in rebirth. Who knows you will be reborn to witness the event 20,000 years from now?

[CAZZERNERY]

i wanna see a supernova

[ultrapot]

OK. That was pretty cool.

[westleyvaughan]

you got way too much free time and are pretty hyper lol but it was interesting

[saturninenight]

I was drunk. I'm sorry. I like your show. I get excited sometimes...

[saturninenight]

I'm gonna blow up all over your face...handsome man astronomer. Yeah, real soon and shit.....

[stripes5150]

so, no smoking near it then??? lol

[starbase121]

Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice! I always wanted to say that!

[airrifledestruction1]

yes but when it dose blow up you wont see it untill like millions of years.

[clayzee001]

if it blows up tonight it will be seen 6000 years ago

[glemmstengal]

@airrifledestruction1 unless it blew up millions of years ago

[Deciheximal]

My god, Betelgeuse isn't REALLY supposed to be pronounced "Beetle Juice", is it?

[aarperry]

yeah, how did you think it was meant to be pronounced?? lol

[TheGo0fy]

Yes, it really is...

[BYfodas]

wow that really conforted me again so Betelgeuse Wont Blow up so am... in the next year OH!!! thank u so much! i was so worried about that star. I've been searching for more information, and also i've see VY Canis Majoris, the largest star Known, is going to become a supernova Too! this is the teacher that is missing on my school, honestly if u were my teacher i wont miss a class *-*

[Eschatus2]

I thought the next star to blow up would be Roseanne Barr. LOL!

[702LowDown702]

It could have already blown up.

[radical80]

Is that an alien doll on the top shelf behind u? 0_0

[bledesposau]

What's with Rho Cassiopeiae?

[Herufaia]

I'd always thought the next would be eta carinae but the one I'd love to see would be Antares. Then again I'm sure Betelgeuse would go off first.

Seeing as I live in the northern hemisphere I'd both the stars in this vid going off.

And I wouldn't be able to afford a trip down there to see them.

[LovelyYTRocks]

"Cosmic Pearls"

Not rings.

:P

[jeffbrown8]

he didn't specify, "stars in our galaxy"

[megadecimal]

"stay tuned" for 15,000 years...lol

[pnoozi]

Has anyone actually looked up in the night sky and seen a star blow up?

[lyn0002]

Due to the affects of relativity, supernovae are observed over long periods of time, sometimes up to a month or more. The answer is yes, astronomers have seen plenty of supernovae through their telescopes. Gallileo was driven to study physics, in fact, after viewing a particular one.

[innosar11gamefreak]

ive seen one in descovery channel a star called recocephie YA exploded in august 17 2000

[Herufaia]

See the crab nebula.

[n0rdeck52]

Back in the year 1054, numerous peoples across Earth recorded the sighting of a "new star" that was so bright it was visible during the day for 23 days before fading from view. The remains of the explosion are what we call the Crab Nebula.

[MisterDax]

@n0rdeck52

In QI, that would be worth lots of points :)

[Atheistprimate]

Love your videos, please keep them coming.

5 star

[maurieer]

Yes, it is cool.

Thanks for your post.

5+

[Ijustwanttoseevideo5]

Thanks Phil, I like to hear about these types of things

[krebul]

What's cool is the star may have already blown up. The light from the explosion just hasn't reached earth yet.

[ragenono]

i have some video of an object exploding check it out. i don't know what it could be

[aluisa25]

to much sience lol

[danni13371]

BTW, Mike or whatever your name is (the video-uploader). If you read this: Do you know if any star is bigger than VV Cephei?

Find it by searching "planet scale", if you don't already know it.

[jergsden]

So it could have already happened and we just haven't noticed yet (since it is so far away). Interesting!

BTW, what do you call a near-sighted astronomer?

[thirdclass2006]

A microbiologist?

[jergsden]

A geologist. ;)

[thirdclass2006]

Oh! Pretty good, really. :D

I though it was microbiologist mostly because of Dr. Plait's "rivalry" with PZ, a biologist.

Any more good ones?

[jergsden]

Your guess was a good one though!

[Mjhavok]

A ring-shaped emission-line nebula and a possible bipolar outflow centered on the B1.5 supergiant Sher 25 in the Galactic giant H II region NGC 3603 (distance 6 kpc)

[Mjhavok]

From Wikipedia "Sher 25 is an old blue supergiant star located approximately 20,000 ly from the sun in the H II region NGC 3603. Its Apparent magnitude is 12.2 and it is a B spectral type.

[Mjhavok]

It is part of the constellation Carina. This star as commonly thought to be nearing the point of exploding as a supernova as it was found to have thrown off matter in a pattern similar to that found for the supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, having a circumstellar ring and bipolar outflow filaments."

[falwk]

Wasnt he in a Penn and Teller's Bullshit! episodes?

He looks EXACTLY like the guy that thinks 9/11 is a conspiracy.

[thirdclass2006]

Who, Phil Plait?

You're correct that Dr Plait was in Penn & Teller episode. But he was in the one about the moon hoax, debunking the claims.

The 9/11 guy was someone else.

[falwk]

Oh, sorry then. Just regonised him from somewhere x) thanks for clearing that up ;p

[SpreadingtheMuse]

You're thinking of that nut who said that the passengers on the airplanes were in on the whole thing and government employees? He was a fruitcake. This isnt him.

[slowhand1954]

By rthe time it does blow up and we see it. it will be ancient history. At the speed of light the visual of a star blowing up, the 1987A nova if it 10,000 light years away the it would have to be long gone by the time we see it.

Peace,

Allen

[danni13371]

HSTS is always an option.

[ThyGoddess]

What's HSTS? :X

[danni13371]

Hubble Space TeleScope.

[ThyGoddess]

@danni13371: Oh... Now I feel silly ;)

[danni13371]

Lol. And you're 10 years older than me. xD

[mddawson1]

You should carry a sign "THE END OF THEIR WORLD IS NIGH!"

[Killersepp]

You've got a chat room? Why do I not know this?

[Killersepp]

...and don't call me Sher-ly!

[foley15136]

BANG - let us know

[davidpapp]

I love these videos. 20,000 years? Darn. Wanted to see that one. :(

[philhellenes]

You still might. :)

[Sigrafix]

You know, I damn sure don't have a death wish but I'd really like to see a catastrophic event like a asteroid hitting the planet or the sun going supernova.. does that make me a "bad astronomer?" Lol...

[h8uall66]

If you are correct maybe you can get on Montel with Sylvia Brown.

[CousinoMacul]

Are you absolute "Sher" it's going to blow up, Phil?

[TrueNorth15]

would you like him to as-Sher you?

[thedtenaciously]

SUNny and Cher. Thank you very much, I'll be here all week.