Betelgeuse - Orion's red supergiant star

Video showing very sharp images of the surface and surroundings of Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. Betelgeuse is the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter). It is one of the biggest stars known according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is almost 1000 times larger than our Sun and emmits more light than 100,000 Suns. Betelgeuse has an age of only a few million years, but it is very near to its end, but that's the fait of supergiants like these that may explode as supernovae after a short life. All images released by ESO under an Attribution-Unported 3.0 Creative Commons License. Music by Butterfly Tea - "Dragon Entrance" from the album "Dragon Dance", released under an Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike, 3.0 Creative Commons License.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• supergiant
• red
• supernovae
• Orion
• ESO

[Zran85]

Great vid thumbs up

[AstroRadar]

@Zran85: Thanks a lot. Greetings from Bogotá, Thilo.

[n2motocross]

Betelguese would end as a hypernova, which is thousands of times bigger than a supernova.

[HelmutVillam]

she's gonna blow!

[prchecker]

love the video really good

[rodswebdesign]

very interesting video thanks

[Danhtran1122]

That's amazing how scientists & astronomers know Betelgeuse is only a few million years old.

[TheSpikeystuff]

Very enjoyable thank you

[willbirful]

love the video man

[valarmanwe]

@animegirl0091 I once read that if a supernova happened within 50 light years distance ( 300 million million miles ) of earth, it would whipe out earth, and that it would be like every person in the world having strapped to them their own personal atomic bomb. Don`t know how true that is. Thankfully Betelgeuse is far off enough for us not to be blown to pieces.

[BlackWidowZ93]

This can be seen with the naked eye as a small or tiny red dot to the left off Orion not much to see though.

[BlackWidowZ93]

@animegirl0091 Most suns turn in dwarfs or black holes.after they die but honestly i think it shall be a spectacular site. This Tue/Wed and Thursday YU55 asteroid is making a pass of the earth and the moon. Around 315,000Klm away from us 53 earth diameters. See more google YU55 it poses no threat to us :).