What's The Reddish Looking Star Over Orion?

Red star at night, Martian delight.

It could also be Wolf 359 I think.

Betelgeuse
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

star ship betelgeuse we had a thread running on it a year ago now and people were watching IT MOVE AROUND and flash.

According to science, Betelgeuse is supposed to explode any day or, any millennium. So, did he go supernova??
We wouldn't see it anyway, right? Because we're looking at points of light from years ago. I hate light-years. I can't comprehend it or wrap my head around that principle.

Let us know if you find out anything OP

a star ship is hardly going to explode, see my post above.

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Interesting, thank you. I read about that before, didn't know it was related to Orion. Something like its supposed to explode and make it look like 2 suns for a little while.

Sorry, my bad, it's Betelgeuse, not Mars.

I just checked on my phone's star thingy.

LOL. Three of us said Betelgeuse at the same time!


Also, the Sun is giving off huge CME's so it might be filling the atmosphere with waves of radiation (or whatever it is we're supposed to be afraid of) making colors look funky.

Hey, I don't doubt anything anymore. I'm almost convinced the Moon is artificial so who knows. I just wrote what science said. Whom...I don't believe either. If science tells us to look left, I instinctively look right! So if they (science) said Betelgeuse will implode, I say, they probably have colonized a few planets around it!

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You look retarded in that outfit lol!

betelgeuse is a part of Orion.... or you could be talking about Aldebaran

in ancient times was known as raphanus sativus

edible branch of the krassicaceae family that was domesticated in yurop in pre-konan times

I agree. I remember a Yahoo headline about Betelgeuse going Supernova and we'd see what appeared to be 2 suns for a couple of weeks. But if it is light years away, how would we ever see that until way after it happened? Just a lot of odd coincidences. Ancient monuments, Orion, Red Star, Orion, 2012, etc.

if betelgeuse did explode... we wouldn't know about it for a long ass time... since it's 640 light years away...

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same concept as a delay in sound waves. Have you ever seen something happen and then the sound is delayed slightly? For instance - this is quite common when seeing someone hammer shingles on a roof from a distance. If you're far enough away it will seem that the "bang" of the hammer is happening when the roofer's hammer is on the upswing - rather than when it hits the roof. Another common example is watching someone fire a gun from a distance - the sound is delayed. Another is watching an airplane fly overhead - often it seems that the sound of the plane is "behind" or trailing the plane. This is because sound travels incredibly slow when compared to the speed of light. You see the action (because of the speed of light) and then hear the sound abit later when the slower sound waves finally get to your ear.

Now... apply that same concept to light - these stars we observe in the sky are so incredibly far away that it takes years (sometimes thousands or millions of years) for the light to get to us. So what we are observing is something that actually already happened.

Remember that light-years are a measure of distance - not time. It's simply the distance that light will travel in one year (an extremely long distance to us).

So if we see a star go supernova tomorrow - and that star is 700 light years away from earth, then the supernova actually happened 700 years ago. We're just now seeing it.
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(edit - corrected to 700)

Last Edited by FatGoose on 03/11/2012 10:40 PM

Yea.. I mean... the same deal with our Sun. The light we see is 8 minutes old.... so if our Sun shit itself... it'd be 8 minutes before we saw what was happening.

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Also interesting is that our own sun is so far away from us that it actually takes apporx. 8 minutes for the light to get to us... So when you see the sun set - it actually happened 8 minutes earlier. :o)
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lol... typing at the same time... you win :-)

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Of course it could have gone nova 640 years ago... and then we'd see it any minute.
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