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Betelgeuse

SGT.Code

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have you ever walk out into your garden and looked up at the night sky? have you look out over the diferent constelations? what about the one called Orion?

In the constelation of Orion the is a star called Betelgeuse (the one that marks his right shoulder) and astronomers say it exploded a few billion years ago and yes you can google it and find loads of places that say "it has not yet exploded but it will soon and we will see it like a second sun" well part of that is true becaus we will have a second sun on planet earth for maybe 1 or 2 weeks but Betelgeuse exploded a few billion years ago and caused a supernova (basicly a bg explosion that comes from a dieing star) and this planet is about 140 million light years away so if the quote i took from 1 of the sites i found on google is true then if it exploded this year we would not seen it in our life time becaus as im sure you all know that a light year is the time light takes to get from point A to point B and 1 light year is equal to 1 trillion killometers and the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s (not the sort of speed you get on need for speed unfortunatly ) but enogh math, so saying betelgeuse (okay from now on im gona call it Bety caus im sick of typing it) exploded billions of years ago and that we will see it this year is actualy understandable and all so if you look at Bety you wll see that she is more orange than you avrage star signaling that she was pretty close to exploding when that light was emited so we allready know that she was dead but becaus of the distance and the speed of the light we cauld still see her but sometime this year we will have a second sun and then no more Bety im affraid.
right heres a little demonstration of what will happen to Bety = ::fire Smile::
a few smilies were hurt during this post i can not give you an exact amount be cause they are still exploding.

Im sure i was going to say somthing else at the end of this post but i forgot while writing all that ^^ so ... um ... THE END TADA.

ah yes i remember what i was gona put if you have any questions please dont ask me ask this guy > www.google.com < becaus im not an astrnomer and i only got the info about poor old BEty from google but most of that about light years is from my high school days.
 

OliverE

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Deadly has been getting a bit high me thinks

Otherwise nice little Physics lesson
 

SGT.Code

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no im not high anymore i kinda stoped smoking funny stuf when i quit school so im clean lol but no this is true google it youl see but you might see better if your high lol
 

OliverE

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yer i knw its true lol but still kinda random lol.
And yer, with the earths atmosphere and shit it would be hard to see. Thats why they got the Hubble Space telescope, its out side the atmosphere and it takes eppic pictures of space
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SGT.Code

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yer this is a pic of old bety up close but even so we should be able to see the supernova and some even say that it will be like the star wars movie where luke skywalker is looking at the 2 suns on his hyome planet.


i have a new development on the case for you!
i supose by now evryone has heard the supid rumemrs about how the world will end in 2011 acording to the mayan calender well supose the mis read the thing supose it said A world will end maybe just maybe they were talking about old bety when they thought of the old calender heres a pic of the mayan calender :