@spaghetti yummy *From an Atom, to a Galaxy, [Electromagnetism] governs all things in our universe, gravity is merely a side effect of it.* *Those who control what you know about science, or in this case; Astrophysics, have been keeping the truth from you.* *Information is power, and THEY are not about to give it up.*
Jack John -- Reminds me a good book I read... A young man discovers a meteor and then the Feds and other foreign governments are all over him trying to obtain it. --Thinking that it has magical powers because it seems to be putting out a low level signal toward the heavens. Finally, the US agencies get ahold of it and are shocked when they trace it's signal to a star many, many thousands of light years away. It is almost heartbreaking in the conclusion of the book... Signal or no signal, star #(such and such) had apparently burnt out hundreds of years ago, even though the scientists could still see it in the sky above themselves. :-(
Kelevra -- Oh.. I'm really sorry, my friend. :-( Although I've read the book three or four times, it is now packed away deep in my closet and probably won't be seen again until the next time I move. :-( I'm very sorry. (It's great, I damaged my memory a couple times and now I can watch the same movies or read the same books over and over... and it is just like the first time -- Each time I open the cover again!) :-D
Exactly. The further the distance, the further the gap of time. Chances are most of the furthest possibly viewable objects in the universe are long gone, ancient on a scale we cannot truly comprehend, compounded by an expanding universe
@@aidanrowland611 yeah that sucks!!.. what did he say it was 600 or 650 light years away, so i could be nearly 700 years old before i can read the paper at night for 16 or so nights... maybe i should just get a flashlight and not take the 6 drops of potion made from that spell in the necronmicon(not spelling that right) but dose anyone get the film im taking that from??? classic!!
To be honest , who knows if it had already died i mean we wont know it died until 642 years
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When Betelguese died, I was a disperate array of atoms scattered over the earth which, hundreds of years later, would coalesce to form me for a brief period... Just in time for me to (hopefully) witness the event.
Ikr! Astronomers should start talking in the past tense since everything they observe has already happened a long time ago. It wraps the perspective to ask the questions in the present tense.
@@10HW I agree, we see Betelgeuse dimming but that was 640 years ago, so basically when that happened some famous people of the middle ages like Christopher Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci were not even born yet. Since then Betelgeuse could've already gone supernova.
"tens to a hundred thousand years" Brain: that's not a really long time in galactic proportion. Cool. Also brain: Max. accepted human life span is 120 years, average globally about 72 years. *existential crisis at 25 years old*
That reminds me of a talk where a professor was say "Our sun will expand, and engulf some of the inner planets before collapsing and then exploding in about 3 billion years" A voice came from the back of the room (it happened to be a journalist) "Did you say 3 billion or 3 million?" To which the professor replied "3 billion" Another voice chimed in "Thank god for that" Lol
Sour Wes I am right in saying it takes about 9mins to get from the surface of the sun to earth and 650+ years to get to out of the sun itself. I can kinda remember seeing something about it in a documentary one time.
@@sourwes0001 Damn youtube should add confirmation when you click delete by mistake. Anyway. The distance between the star (which could be anywhere from 430ish to 650) is irrelevant here. None of us or the descendants of the descendants of the descendants ... of our descendants will be here.
@UC34to840SVebNyAK0suvSeg It's not about damage, it's about the fact that it's ~642 years away... depending on your definition of _"now"_ you'd have to wait that long to see it explode if it started _"now"._ (Of course if your _"now"_ refers to the light that's currently reaching Earth, and it started exploding about ~642 years ago, you'd be able to enjoy the light show without being immortal. Unless you died for some unrelated reason, of course; it's not like being immortal _wouldn't_ help, it's just that it wouldn't be a prerequisite.)
They have been saying it for years, but the star is dimmer than it was years ago. I watched it yesterday and noticed the same. Hope we can see it in our lifetime but it probably won’t happen soon.
If it went supernova anytime soon it truly would be an event of a lifetime! It's apparent magnitude is said to be comparable to full moon - it would be amazing sight on a night sky. It bothers me that on cosmic scale "soon" might be in 10 years or 10000 years.
@@RiverLapse That's the thing though, haven't we observed remnants of supernova over the course of years? Though because of the size maybe that's why it wouldn't last long. Or the light would be too dim to see. I'd love to live long enough to see something like that, hell it's hard to see the Milky way without leaving the city.
"Lets wait and see what happens to Betelgeuse" 2020... i'm waiting 2120.. my great grand kids are old.. Betelgeuse is still dying 2220.... Betelgeuse is still on life support 2320.... News Flash "Betelgeuse is at its brightest... is it going supernova?" 2420.... My family line has risen to rule the Earth 2520... My family line has been extinguished 2620... Newsflash "Betelgeuse has entered its lowest light phase... is it going supernova?" 2720... Earth is no more as they destroyed themselves.... In other news.. Betelgeuse is doing just fine"
New subscriber. I enjoy your presentations very much. People of almost any age can understand the information easily, which makes watching it with my grandchildren easy and raise lots of discussion. Thank you Anton.
Thank you Anton, we should always find time for our nearby stars, a visit, some mention, some reflection on our position in the galaxy. Always a joy to tune in! ml, 💕
@@kennethshorter7546 one way or another. but even then, causality can only travel at the speed of light. Even though it would have had to exploded a long time ago, the fact of it exploding would not be true until the light reached our planet. So for us, the event happens when the light reached us, but for someone closer to the star, it would happen earlier for them. Also it only would take about 400 years for the light to reach us.
@@Andrew90046zero yes i got a little carried away on the distance i think he said 600 to 650 light years but i still think it would be super awesome to witnesses. So hopefully it collapsed somewhere around the 1370s😁
If you can see the orions belt (3 stars) right paralel with the middle one on the right side, you will see a blue star (Rigel). On the opposite paralel with the middle star on the left you will see a red star (Betelguese).
Something to think about is that since a light year is the distance that light travels in a year and Betelgeuse is estimated to be between 400 to 700 light years away anything we see now happened 400 to 700 years ago.
I don't think so. I remember a few years back scientists discovered the longest pulsar jet and it was like 40 light years long. Perhaps one alot longer has been found since then though 🤷
It's far enough, the longest pulsar stream recorded is about 40 + light years radius and it was from a huge star like this one. 642 years is far enough away to cause no problems, based on present scientific knowledge........but maybe that's wrong! 😉
So who exactly knows what a 'safe' distance is from a pulsar jet pointing our way? .. *Nobody* Who knows how long this pulsar jet could be? *Nobody* Conclusion being, nobody can say we'll be 'safe'
Anton,. Thank you for all the great, informative videos. It's always educational and enjoyable watching your videos. Keep them coming and I'll keep watching them.
@@venus_envy "full moon behavior" is partly caused by the increased light and partly because of gravity variation (which tides makes more apparent). It's a mystery what would happen to living organisms with a night time intense source of light.
@Planet Purgatory I agree wildlife will likely see changes during this period however, humans don't actually react to the full moon... We're too small bodies of water to be effected by the moon. If you were joking sorry! I just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page. That being said I know a lot of emergency workers that will swear on the full moon theory 😂
I have a question! The light of the star we're seeing today is millions years old, can this star has already exploded ? Because the light is still coming to us!
The light we see is 640-ish years old, what we're seeing now is as it was that long ago. If it blew up the same amount of time ago minus a few weeks, we'd start to see the explosion a few weeks from now here on earth.
Basically, yes..but this particular star is only a little over 600 light-years away...so the light will come less than 1,000 years later in this example.
@@TH-xo4zx: If the consensus is that we won't see it explode for thousands of years, how can you say it has most likely exploded in the last couple of centuries?
@@jeschinstad its 640 light yesrs away and we expect to see it explode in 1,000 years. If we're 100% accurate it won't have exploded yet, but those numbers are very small, so there's a modest chance it has already exploded
Anton, the key unprecedent phenomenom here is the speed of the changes in brightness of Betelgeuse, which is something never observed in the cosmos till now, specially if you consider its size !!! Some very significant event is bei g carried on there for sure !
We must remember just how small amount of time compared to the life of the star we have been watching . We know almost Nothing about its cycle of its life. We are barely scratch the surface of knowledge and experience to understand.
Thank you very much! That's the best explanation I have seen. From the overlapping cycles to the name of the star! You are doing a very good research behind the scenes to give us this information. Thanks a lot!
Aliens may exist on another plane of existence, like the fourth dimension or higher, they will see us but not us then since we can't observe beyond three dimensions, unless technology can enable us to
If there is intelligent life, it would have made it's attempt to leave by now. Trying to survive during a red giant phase still leads to a supernova eventually. So you better plan ahead regardless lol
I say this because the solid earliest life evidence on earth is about one billion years after earth’s agglomeration from the leftover start stuff. Dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago, but were not smart enough to get out of the way of that big asteroid. .
@@dewiz9596 nah they where smart anofoues they died cus of the Ash and toxics the medorer landed in water most dinos don't live in water some are semi aquatic .
"Tick... Tock...",( the sound made by some clocks, for example a pendulum clock), every 12k years or so? I think the "or so" bit is only 30 years away :)
@@ForOdinAndAsgard I made no claims about their level of technology. I do claim, however, that people have been around for a long, long time, and have survived many cataclysms through ingenuity. Many would have us believe that mankind emerged from caves. It's more likely that mankind only goes into caves when needed.
@@cmatt1982 no type two would dare sit next to a super red giant ready to burst. By the time it would give the final warning it was fusing oxygen and silicon and about to make iron they would have milliseconds to get out of range Even if you had warp drives the risk of being just a millisecond to slow would be too great. Not to mention the huge plasma waves it would give off before the final blast would be too chaotic to track and manage. Besides Dyson spheres are best for dwarf stars like ours and anything under F types stars. IE M class H class and even T class.
Petey Nutt my suggestion was for if it wasn’t going supernova...like he said in the video. Plus, how would you have any idea what a type 2 civilization would be capable of being that we are type 0. So is it a possibility? Yes. Is it likely? No.
I dont remember the name of the author, but there is a PhD thesis from a university here in Brazil (USP, if i remember right) that claims Betelgelse may go supernova in about 100 to 400 years... not thousands of years... I'll try to find the source to post here...
What most folks don't realize what we're looking at is OLD LIGHT. And given the distance of Betelgeuse, what we're 'seeing' is something that's already happened. It's now that the aftereffects are just catching up to us. Gotta love the Cosmological Process. :)
I usually don't comment, but one thing. It was said that it might not be condusive to life to try to survive around a variable star such as Betlegeuse (I'm paraphrasing.) However, it is possible that the life that has evolved around such a star may have evolved to be variable itself. For example, hibernation during the cooler periods.
Joao Garbuio I think this is how it is pronounced in English, with the “juice”. I have heard it pronounced with more of a hard G, kind of like “goose”.
Finally! I was hoping Anton and What Da Math would address this. Betelgeuse is really dim. As an amateur astronomer my whole life, Orion is a contellation i look for every night in the Winter. Something is really going on there.
I was hoped I would see Betelgeuse go supernova. I realized my chances were slim to none. But the idea of living through something that beautiful has always excites me.
Actually Betelguese is approx 340-650 LY from Earth thus the dimming we are now seeing is anywhere from 340 to 650 years old meaning that if the dimming is a precursor to a Supernova it may have already exploded but the light from the explosion has not yet reached Earth. thus a better title would be Is the Dimming a sign that Betelguese may have already gone Supernova.
It's *not* a coincidence when our sun not being variable is a 'requirement' for us to be here.
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It is not a coincidence that flies like to land on the turd in the middle of my garden. Flies are landing on turds elsewhere, I have no doubt, even if I cannot see them at this present moment.
Observed for about an hour tonight with binoculars while waiting for the Falcon 9 launch. Betelgeuse was shockingly dim to the naked eye as well as through the glass!
As always full of great information. Kind of disappointed to hear it probably wont explode with in our collective lives. Would be fascinating to see that form in the night sky.
6:40 A more interesting size comparison would be "Betelgeuse vs. Sun in its supergiant phase", or "Betelgeuse in its before-giant phase vs. sun now". 11:43 Ah, there it is.
Your video reminded me of this. SN 1054 is a supernova that was first observed on 4 July 1054, and remained visible for around two years. Wish i could have seen that!
Our star does the same thing, it is currently entering a grand solar minimum. Look at a recent image of it, it has no sunspots whatsoever right now. The last GSM was the "little ice age" of 1600.
I dreamt it many years ago. Did not fully understand what it was. The dream showed a star brighter than the Moon, with a halo around it, like Saturn’s ring. Unlike Saturn, which seems like an eye, due to the viewing angle, this star’s halo was circular from the perspective of Earth. We were all looking at it, in the dream, and it was a sight to see. Something amazing. Just imagine a bright star with a circular halo around it. Everybody was looking at it in amazement for the halo, the ring around it was pulsating, becoming larger and smaller in its radius. It was beating like a heart, the ring increasing its size as it pulsated becoming larger, then smaller, as if it were a multistage implosion about to take place. It was an ominous feeling and people started seeking for shelter, running to their homes, trying to protect themselves from an explosion. Then, as the ring around the star collapsed for the very last time, and in an instant, as I was watching, I saw the bodies of people carbonized in an instant. The legs disintegrated and human bodies just fell on the ground, dark brown, unrecognizable. This event took but an instant, and the odd thing was how trees and homes were intact, as if nothing had happened. That’s the dream. I’ve kept the dream for many years, since 1981, when I had this dream I haven’t forgotten. Now that I hear everyone talking about Betelgeuse, I have come to understand that the Pyramids of Egypt were left there for us as a warning, so that we would look up to the sky, in the direction of Orion’s Belt. I am now convinced this great sign on the sky announces the end, the baptism by fire of Earth. When I see Betelgeuse dimming it reminds me of a tsunami, how water retreats before it comes at us with a vengeance. Yes, I am a Christian, and I believe we are living in prophetic times. Imagine if we are positioned right in the northern of southern axis of the star. The neutron star explosion would shoot a beam of gamma rays so strong it would obliterate Earth with its power. I am also wondering if the Sun has gone shy lately due to Betelgeuse electromagnetic influence, after all, it’s an Orange Supergiant with could end up creating a nebulae thousands of light years in diameter, putting Earth and our solar system inside that nebulae once it goes bye bye. Well, go to confession, repent before it’s too late. I’m sure once the phenomena starts there won’t be enough time to do it. We are in the Great Tribulation undoubtedly, for one fifth of humanity has been butchered inside the womb, 1,500 million thus far, 61 million in the USA, in a clear attempt to destroy the human family. It all is happening as it was written in the book of Revelation, right before the second coming of Jesus Christ in glory, to take us to a New Earth, in a New Universe. Believe me you, the sky will look a lot different after this Betelgeuse even takes place. Imagine being surrounded by a sky filled in blue and pink colors, a super bright night sky, as it has never happened on Earth before. However, I doubt there be any to contemplate such a sight, which makes me wonder. Who knows, we might have to leave this planet and see a brand new sky, somewhere else in the Universe. Are you ready to board “Noah’s Vessel” the New Jerusalem, heading to a brand new planet in your brand new bodies, because I honestly doubt our carbon based bodies will be able to withstand what’s coming. Now you know. I said it. Let it not be said I kept this intel to myself, I did share it, to as many as I could. (Don’t kill the messenger of Betelgeuse).
I find it curious that from what I have read, there is some uncertainty regarding how far away B is (I recall 450- 650 ly)- perhaps this star is expanding/contracting in apparent size at a rapid rate confounding conventional means of measurement. It would be interesting to experiment to see what/if any ftl particles (tachyons etc.) that might be detected in advance of observing the actual supernova given our relative proximity to the event. could be pretty cool thing to see though
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It was dying when mankind was still living in caves, it was dying before I was born, it will still be dying after I am long dead. Crazy.
We all will.... got U
It’s like a car crash in slow motion
Only white people lived in caves clown learn your real history
@spaghetti yummy
*From an Atom, to a Galaxy, [Electromagnetism] governs all things in our universe, gravity is merely a side effect of it.*
*Those who control what you know about science, or in this case; Astrophysics, have been keeping the truth from you.*
*Information is power, and THEY are not about to give it up.*
Lmao it is so insanely humanistic to believe we know everything. WE KNOW NOTHING!!! Its just guesses. All of it.
Imagine when it finally happens: "Betelgeuse has just exploded... 642 years ago".
Jack John -- Reminds me a good book I read... A young man discovers a meteor and then the Feds and other foreign governments are all over him trying to obtain it. --Thinking that it has magical powers because it seems to be putting out a low level signal toward the heavens. Finally, the US agencies get ahold of it and are shocked when they trace it's signal to a star many, many thousands of light years away. It is almost heartbreaking in the conclusion of the book... Signal or no signal, star #(such and such) had apparently burnt out hundreds of years ago, even though the scientists could still see it in the sky above themselves. :-(
@@chivalryalive You do realize you gotta give a title now, right?
Kelevra -- Oh.. I'm really sorry, my friend. :-( Although I've read the book three or four times, it is now packed away deep in my closet and probably won't be seen again until the next time I move. :-( I'm very sorry. (It's great, I damaged my memory a couple times and now I can watch the same movies or read the same books over and over... and it is just like the first time -- Each time I open the cover again!) :-D
Very true. We should remember though that the uncertainty on its distance is fairly large, so we don't know if it's really 642 light years away.
Exactly. The further the distance, the further the gap of time. Chances are most of the furthest possibly viewable objects in the universe are long gone, ancient on a scale we cannot truly comprehend, compounded by an expanding universe
If you say the stars name three times will that set it off.
@@gtron212 It's showtime
gtron212 ok I think that set it off. Now we just gotta wait around 500 years for the light to reach us!
I called my step dad beetulguce 3 times and it set him off.
gtron212 it just blew! But it’s 1000 light years away.
@@aidanrowland611 yeah that sucks!!.. what did he say it was 600 or 650 light years away, so i could be nearly 700 years old before i can read the paper at night for 16 or so nights... maybe i should just get a flashlight and not take the 6 drops of potion made from that spell in the necronmicon(not spelling that right) but dose anyone get the film im taking that from??? classic!!
where were you when betelgeuse died ?
I was at home eating moon flakes
when phone ring
"bettlejiuce is kil"
"no"
To be honest , who knows if it had already died
i mean we wont know it died until 642 years
When Betelguese died, I was a disperate array of atoms scattered over the earth which, hundreds of years later, would coalesce to form me for a brief period... Just in time for me to (hopefully) witness the event.
@ I saw what you did there.
You should really write.
"Hello wonderful person"
Everybody "Hello!"
You're right aboot that, eh.
I reply in the voice of Scott Manley. 'Hullo!'
Hello wonderful Canadian neighbor!☺👍
Hello!
It's a head turner
Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave a Beautiful Corpse--Betelgeuse.
Betelgeuse is the Kurt Cobain of stars!
After working with the county coroner for years I've come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a beautiful corpse......
If it is , it already has, a long time ago!
Not really. Only 640 years ago. Not long in the cosmic scheme of things.
Agreed. It takes light approximately 650 years to travel from Betegeuse to Earth, so it could have already gone nova and we wouldn't know it yet.
@@ploppyploppy but we are human and tend to think of things in terms of our own lives.
Ikr! Astronomers should start talking in the past tense since everything they observe has already happened a long time ago. It wraps the perspective to ask the questions in the present tense.
@@10HW I agree, we see Betelgeuse dimming but that was 640 years ago, so basically when that happened some famous people of the middle ages like Christopher Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci were not even born yet. Since then Betelgeuse could've already gone supernova.
"tens to a hundred thousand years"
Brain: that's not a really long time in galactic proportion. Cool.
Also brain: Max. accepted human life span is 120 years, average globally about 72 years. *existential crisis at 25 years old*
Face and hand hlep save later
25 is a good age to have that crisis.
AVERAGE age Globally is like 37 if you count infant mortality and unwanted Chinese girls.
They say that theoretically humans should just start making the technology to download a persons brain into a computer by the 2050s.
Sure is, we just have to wait a few tens to a hundred thousand years. RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. XD
That reminds me of a talk where a professor was say
"Our sun will expand, and engulf some of the inner planets before collapsing and then exploding in about 3 billion years"
A voice came from the back of the room (it happened to be a journalist)
"Did you say 3 billion or 3 million?"
To which the professor replied
"3 billion"
Another voice chimed in
"Thank god for that"
Lol
Not exactly lol! It takes approximately 650 yrs for a photon of light to travel the distance to earth 🌍 from Betelgeuse
Sour Wes
I am right in saying it takes about 9mins to get from the surface of the sun to earth and 650+ years to get to out of the sun itself.
I can kinda remember seeing something about it in a documentary one time.
@@sourwes0001 Damn youtube should add confirmation when you click delete by mistake. Anyway. The distance between the star (which could be anywhere from 430ish to 650) is irrelevant here. None of us or the descendants of the descendants of the descendants ... of our descendants will be here.
@@badgerbush3556 I think it's more like 100k years for light to get out of the Sun or something?
Yes it is, because I saw a stag beetle in my kitchen, I stood on it. It exploded a lot of beetlejuice.
Happy new year Anton! Can’t wait for the 2020 space vids
I walked in at this point and thought Anton was about to be run over by a gigantic chocolate chip cookie. 2:02
Anton, wonderful person that he is can handle a gigantic chocolate chip cookie attack with his hands tied behind his back I'm sure.
If Betelgeuse does start to explode a few years later, I’ll stare at the beautiful supernova in the sky
Unless you're an immortal robot, nope. heh
@@GrubbJunker it's not close enough to Earth to do any damage to us.
@@DanTKD87 I meant to say that it's not going off for possibly 100,000 years, so you'd have to be immortal to even see it.
@UC34to840SVebNyAK0suvSeg It's not about damage, it's about the fact that it's ~642 years away... depending on your definition of _"now"_ you'd have to wait that long to see it explode if it started _"now"._ (Of course if your _"now"_ refers to the light that's currently reaching Earth, and it started exploding about ~642 years ago, you'd be able to enjoy the light show without being immortal. Unless you died for some unrelated reason, of course; it's not like being immortal _wouldn't_ help, it's just that it wouldn't be a prerequisite.)
@@GrubbJunker Oh, ok. The OP said "a few years later" so we thought you were talking about its power, not the time it'll take to happen.
I remember reading some 13 years ago, the same news broke. I don’t remember anything about any dimming but there was certainly talk of it going pop.
that's a blink of an eye in astronomical scales
If we see it explode in our lifetime, it will have already exploded before your great great great great great grandparents were born.
@@metalheadmachines9800 yeah, that is what i was thinking, it is really so far that maybe has already exploded.
They have been saying it for years, but the star is dimmer than it was years ago. I watched it yesterday and noticed the same. Hope we can see it in our lifetime but it probably won’t happen soon.
If it went supernova anytime soon it truly would be an event of a lifetime! It's apparent magnitude is said to be comparable to full moon - it would be amazing sight on a night sky.
It bothers me that on cosmic scale "soon" might be in 10 years or 10000 years.
Would it not last a long time too?
@@joejanota707 probably 3 to 4 weeks but there will be a beautiful reminent of it
Betelgeuse has already gone supernova but the light hasn't reached us yet.
@@oparei8725
maybe, maybe not, it's only 700 light years away 🤩🤩🤩 but, you are right in that we are looking into the past.
@@RiverLapse That's the thing though, haven't we observed remnants of supernova over the course of years? Though because of the size maybe that's why it wouldn't last long. Or the light would be too dim to see. I'd love to live long enough to see something like that, hell it's hard to see the Milky way without leaving the city.
"Lets wait and see what happens to Betelgeuse"
2020... i'm waiting
2120.. my great grand kids are old.. Betelgeuse is still dying
2220.... Betelgeuse is still on life support
2320.... News Flash "Betelgeuse is at its brightest... is it going supernova?"
2420.... My family line has risen to rule the Earth
2520... My family line has been extinguished
2620... Newsflash "Betelgeuse has entered its lowest light phase... is it going supernova?"
2720... Earth is no more as they destroyed themselves.... In other news.. Betelgeuse is doing just fine"
It's my favorite star :(
The worse thing is, it might have been dead around 650 years ago, and we're still seeing it shine in the night sky.
Aww its ok
It would be awesome to see it explode tho
@@tuneboyz5634 yeh just wait for a bit
Space incidents like this scares the living shit out of me, even though the risk of my short life span experiencing something like it is super low.
I just really love watching this channel, daily. Thank you Anton.☺👍
It’ll blow when the iron it produces migrates outwards and generates a magnetic field which will undermine the stars main field causing instability.
The one good site I can go to get a good feeling. I'm learning neat stuff.
I wish you a wonderful new year. I always be happy hearing from you. You are Sincerely a wonderful person.
I've noticed the dimming lately. I sure hope it does go boom.
@Timothy Mckee Why make this political bruh
Timothy Mckee lmfao
It will be a great way to start teaching my son about the stars. Already wowed my wife by teaching her that’s where the gold in her rings comes from.
New subscriber. I enjoy your presentations very much. People of almost any age can understand the information easily, which makes watching it with my grandchildren easy and raise lots of discussion. Thank you Anton.
It would be awesome to see a new Supernova so close to earth and study it. I myself will be looking at it do to the ease of viewing
due to the ease...
Unles we get cooked by the gamma ray burst
Being cooked would be kinda cool while it lasts
Thank you Anton, we should always find time for our nearby stars, a visit, some mention, some reflection on our position in the galaxy. Always a joy to tune in! ml, 💕
Is that gonna reset my clocks? UGH
I'm so glad you covered this! It's been a story for about 10 days now. You give a very good treatment on these topics
Agree very much
Betelgeuse has gone dimmer
:meanwhile, in connecticut:
"IT'S SHOWTIIME!"
Doug Heffernan on Drugs: Connecticut
im from connecticut, what does this comment mean exactly?
We should clean our telescopes lenes
I'm pretty close to CT, i go to Danbury pretty often. I also listen to I95 Ethan and Lou pretty often as well lol.
Zachary Welch - Me too
Love Anton!
Best presentations of The Standard Model of Cosmology and Astrophysics on the internet.
Me at the beginning of this video: I hope it doesn't explode soon.
Me at the end of this video: damn I wish it explodes soon!
I wake up every morning hoping it explodes.
@@smiley235 😂
Actually you hope it exploded millions of years ago so that we can see it
@@kennethshorter7546 one way or another.
but even then, causality can only travel at the speed of light. Even though it would have had to exploded a long time ago, the fact of it exploding would not be true until the light reached our planet. So for us, the event happens when the light reached us, but for someone closer to the star, it would happen earlier for them.
Also it only would take about 400 years for the light to reach us.
@@Andrew90046zero yes i got a little carried away on the distance i think he said 600 to 650 light years but i still think it would be super awesome to witnesses. So hopefully it collapsed somewhere around the 1370s😁
cool video 😊👍
I used Sky Map app to easily find it in the sky.
It's 700 light years away, interesting to see so much information about it...
Great presentation as always and thank you for showing its exact location in Orion.....now I know.
If you can see the orions belt (3 stars) right paralel with the middle one on the right side, you will see a blue star (Rigel). On the opposite paralel with the middle star on the left you will see a red star (Betelguese).
Something to think about is that since a light year is the distance that light travels in a year and Betelgeuse is estimated to be between 400 to 700 light years away anything we see now happened 400 to 700 years ago.
What if it becomes a pulsar who's jet happens to point our way? Is 600 light years enough distance from a pulsar jet? Tell me Anton!
I don't think so. I remember a few years back scientists discovered the longest pulsar jet and it was like 40 light years long. Perhaps one alot longer has been found since then though 🤷
It's far enough, the longest pulsar stream recorded is about 40 + light years radius and it was from a huge star like this one. 642 years is far enough away to cause no problems, based on present scientific knowledge........but maybe that's wrong! 😉
So who exactly knows what a 'safe' distance is from a pulsar jet pointing our way?
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*Nobody*
Who knows how long this pulsar jet could be?
*Nobody*
Conclusion being, nobody can say we'll be 'safe'
Anton,. Thank you for all the great, informative videos. It's always educational and enjoyable watching your videos. Keep them coming and I'll keep watching them.
Happy New year to you Anton and to your wonderful viewers in and around the Milky Way Galaxy :-)
05:50 Our Sun will not become a red supergiant, but rather a red giant.
Corals use the full moon as a trigger for their spawning and reproductive cycles. A supernovae could affect these cycles.
It will definitely disturb a lot of animals, probably ourselves included. You know "full-moon behaviour"? Expect a lot of that.
@@venus_envy "full moon behavior" is partly caused by the increased light and partly because of gravity variation (which tides makes more apparent). It's a mystery what would happen to living organisms with a night time intense source of light.
@Planet Purgatory I agree wildlife will likely see changes during this period however, humans don't actually react to the full moon... We're too small bodies of water to be effected by the moon.
If you were joking sorry! I just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page. That being said I know a lot of emergency workers that will swear on the full moon theory 😂
I've been waiting for this episode! Thanks!
I have a question! The light of the star we're seeing today is millions years old, can this star has already exploded ? Because the light is still coming to us!
The light we see is 640-ish years old, what we're seeing now is as it was that long ago. If it blew up the same amount of time ago minus a few weeks, we'd start to see the explosion a few weeks from now here on earth.
Basically, yes..but this particular star is only a little over 600 light-years away...so the light will come less than 1,000 years later in this example.
Yup actually most likely has. But nothing moves faster then light so really it happened there but didnt happen here yet.
@@TH-xo4zx: If the consensus is that we won't see it explode for thousands of years, how can you say it has most likely exploded in the last couple of centuries?
@@jeschinstad its 640 light yesrs away and we expect to see it explode in 1,000 years. If we're 100% accurate it won't have exploded yet, but those numbers are very small, so there's a modest chance it has already exploded
Your videos always make me truly understand how lucky we are to be here, living and able to watch your videos right now lol
Beetle Juice would be a --good-- name for deodorant.
_"Put it on your pits."_
Anton, the key unprecedent phenomenom here is the speed of the changes in brightness of Betelgeuse, which is something never observed in the cosmos till now, specially if you consider its size !!! Some very significant event is bei g carried on there for sure !
Didn’t pay the electric bill probably.
We must remember just how small amount of time compared to the life of the star we have been watching . We know almost Nothing about its cycle of its life. We are barely scratch the surface of knowledge and experience to understand.
I hope it doesn't go, Betelgeuse is my fav star - besides our star of course. ;)
(possible it already did 500 years ago...
This, exactly this, I hope if it explodes at least it leave something there that we can still see without prismatics
Would you like it less as a neutron star? Wouldn't that just make it more exclusive? I mean, right now, it's just a big ball of gas.
@@lucrativelyrics2004 Have no fear, Luke. 500.01 years ago, the preceding gravity wave will give us many _many_ milliseconds of warning.
Oh yeah. Happy new year. Love your channel 👍
People who aren't wonderful: *TRIGGERED*
Thank you very much!
That's the best explanation I have seen. From the overlapping cycles to the name of the star!
You are doing a very good research behind the scenes to give us this information. Thanks a lot!
I'm not sure I would discount planets around variable stars from having life. Maybe they adapt to go underground. Even worms do this.
Ah, but would life have enough time to develop in a mere 2 million years?
Aliens may exist on another plane of existence, like the fourth dimension or higher, they will see us but not us then since we can't observe beyond three dimensions, unless technology can enable us to
If there is intelligent life, it would have made it's attempt to leave by now. Trying to survive during a red giant phase still leads to a supernova eventually. So you better plan ahead regardless lol
I say this because the solid earliest life evidence on earth is about one billion years after earth’s agglomeration from the leftover start stuff. Dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago, but were not smart enough to get out of the way of that big asteroid. .
@@dewiz9596 nah they where smart anofoues they died cus of the Ash and toxics the medorer landed in water most dinos don't live in water some are semi aquatic
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I seen articles for a few weeks on this. What do you think this year???!
People have learned to go into caves, and forget, every 12k years or so.
"Tick... Tock...",( the sound made by some clocks, for example a pendulum clock), every 12k years or so? I think the "or so" bit is only 30 years away :)
If we dig to 12k years ago we find no copper or glass-fiber cables so they must have had wireless internet.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard I made no claims about their level of technology. I do claim, however, that people have been around for a long, long time, and have survived many cataclysms through ingenuity. Many would have us believe that mankind emerged from caves. It's more likely that mankind only goes into caves when needed.
Here is to Universe Sandbox 2 getting proper volumetric effects for nebulae and supernovae in 2020! Happy new year, wonderful persons.
Well there goes my theory that it’s dimming due to a swarm of alien vehicles leaving the system because they know it’s about to blow
Mine was it's dimming because it's moving farther away
I was thinking another possibility is a dyson sphere was built around the star. Could be a type 2 civilization. Just a thought.
@@cmatt1982 no type two would dare sit next to a super red giant ready to burst.
By the time it would give the final warning it was fusing oxygen and silicon and about to make iron they would have milliseconds to get out of range Even if you had warp drives the risk of being just a millisecond to slow would be too great. Not to mention the huge plasma waves it would give off before the final blast would be too chaotic to track and manage.
Besides Dyson spheres are best for dwarf stars like ours and anything under F types stars.
IE M class H class and even T class.
Petey Nutt my suggestion was for if it wasn’t going supernova...like he said in the video. Plus, how would you have any idea what a type 2 civilization would be capable of being that we are type 0. So is it a possibility? Yes. Is it likely? No.
@@cmatt1982 nice point
But i do think there are no beings at betalguse star system but who knows what could be the truth
Maybe it’s just the dimming effect but the colour of the star is changing too ..it usually looks reddish but it’s looking more blue just now
Make star go boom boom dang it
Sum Thing Wong
@@jawz3102 wi tu low
I dont remember the name of the author, but there is a PhD thesis from a university here in Brazil (USP, if i remember right) that claims Betelgelse may go supernova in about 100 to 400 years... not thousands of years... I'll try to find the source to post here...
My 9 year old friend can explain
First of all Betelguse is so big that it's about to shrink and go supernova. So shrinking=becoming dimmer
What most folks don't realize what we're looking at is OLD LIGHT. And given the distance of Betelgeuse, what we're 'seeing' is something that's already happened. It's now that the aftereffects are just catching up to us. Gotta love the Cosmological Process. :)
Thats one of my life dreams (things i wana see or do before i die) seeing the super nova of betelgeuse
For you and me both, my friend, I hope it happens in our lifetime. It would be the most amazing thing we could ever witness.
Freeze your body.
@@ChinnuWoW There is no such thing.. Not yet :)
Work hard and be moral, and you can reach that dream!
@@gollese What are you talking about? Some people DID choose to get their bodies frozen at cryogenic temperatures.
I usually don't comment, but one thing. It was said that it might not be condusive to life to try to survive around a variable star such as Betlegeuse (I'm paraphrasing.) However, it is possible that the life that has evolved around such a star may have evolved to be variable itself. For example, hibernation during the cooler periods.
In portuguese the GE has a very different sound, I was like, why is he saying bettlejuice, the star's name is beltegeuse
Joao Garbuio I think this is how it is pronounced in English, with the “juice”. I have heard it pronounced with more of a hard G, kind of like “goose”.
I like to keep an eye on it just in case it pops off. It would be so so special to see!
Why don't we just send someone out there to check it out?
(This is a joke)
Warp 9.9 Mr Mcgraw...
*Engage*
Ooh thank God that was a joke...
I would watch that movie
Chuck Norris went and came back. He said its fine.
@@niyastudios5086 Mayans prayed to the Sun, but the Sun, prays to Chuck Norris
Finally! I was hoping Anton and What Da Math would address this.
Betelgeuse is really dim.
As an amateur astronomer my whole life, Orion is a contellation i look for every night in the Winter.
Something is really going on there.
He's back with new content!
Planet Purgatory LMAO
I was hoped I would see Betelgeuse go supernova. I realized my chances were slim to none. But the idea of living through something that beautiful has always excites me.
So basically Beetlejuice is a strobe light from the 1970s
love the Chanel man tones of great info keep up the good work and Happy New Year .
Cm'on Anton, admit it...... it's aliens.....
@Timothy Mckee Build the wall!
That’s secure team 10 you thinking of
I'm not saying it's aliens... but it is aliens.
@@nibiru379 Secure teams 1-9, 11 and 13 have said it's *not* aliens.
@Timothy Mckee 😂😂😂😂
Actually Betelguese is approx 340-650 LY from Earth thus the dimming we are now seeing is anywhere from 340 to 650 years old meaning that if the dimming is a precursor to a Supernova it may have already exploded but the light from the explosion has not yet reached Earth. thus a better title would be Is the Dimming a sign that Betelguese may have already gone Supernova.
Would love to see the explosion through my telescope!
I think you mean you're hoping it happens during your lifetime. As Tendhix says, you'll see it with your naked eye.
Jean-Guy Rubberboot not with a solar filter
It'll be all over TH-cam. Watch it there.
the explosion will go on for days, enough time to check it out
*implosion
I really appreciate your use of Universe Sandbox 2. Well done!
It's *not* a coincidence when our sun not being variable is a 'requirement' for us to be here.
It is not a coincidence that flies like to land on the turd in the middle of my garden. Flies are landing on turds elsewhere, I have no doubt, even if I cannot see them at this present moment.
@J T G - That is the most eloquent analogy I have ever heard to describe life in the universe.
aerospaceTUdelft Well, it's not known for sure it's a requirement, that's just a hypothesis.
Observed for about an hour tonight with binoculars while waiting for the Falcon 9 launch. Betelgeuse was shockingly dim to the naked eye as well as through the glass!
Ford Prefect better speed up any plans for a return home.
There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
As always full of great information. Kind of disappointed to hear it probably wont explode with in our collective lives. Would be fascinating to see that form in the night sky.
happy new year!
Any possibility that Betelgeuse becomes a pulsar, and if so could there be any effect here on earth?
Hair is looking fly homie 👍🏻
Happy New and Peaceful Year, Anton. Take care.
It probably already did but we starting to see it just now
Yeah, nah.
Hey, I may not live to see it go SuperNova but I hope my son does! He loves that stuff and it would be something to talk about for generations!
There’s a black hole in my living room and it’s to your house.
I'm actually shocked no one has made a momma or girlfriend joke. Even though you set yourself up for it perfectly.
Correction, it's FROM my house.
Good job I watched the whole video before commenting i was going to suggest beetlegeuse reaching a point of it's own solar cycle.
Our Sun micronovas every 12,000yrs? Due soon.👍
@Timothy Mckee yeh, Texas mind fucks are supposed to be spuctacular.,😂😂😂😂🥂
Happy New Year, beautiful Anton! All the best in 2020!
This is so ironic, I was just talking about this and then your video popped up on my notifications lol.
Not ironic. Coincidental.
Just trying to help!
I mean, unless they were talking about how they were expecting not to see Anton’s video regarding Betelgeuse.
That's google
It would be 'ironic' if Anton's suggestion that it wasn't going to explode was wrong. There is still a chance your comment can make sense.
@@Ricardo-C they mean ironic in the sense that iron nuclei cannot be fused together in stars, which leads to a supernova
Is its spectrum changing? That might tip us off what it is burning and what elements it is making as it is shrinking. Dr. K
6:40 A more interesting size comparison would be "Betelgeuse vs. Sun in its supergiant phase", or "Betelgeuse in its before-giant phase vs. sun now".
11:43 Ah, there it is.
Your video reminded me of this. SN 1054 is a supernova that was first observed on 4 July 1054, and remained visible for around two years. Wish i could have seen that!
UY Scuti is like: "Awww. So cute.. little star"
Our star does the same thing, it is currently entering a grand solar minimum. Look at a recent image of it, it has no sunspots whatsoever right now. The last GSM was the "little ice age" of 1600.
Betelgeuse: Does burning this element make my gas look big?
Hahaha nice
I dreamt it many years ago. Did not fully understand what it was. The dream showed a star brighter than the Moon, with a halo around it, like Saturn’s ring. Unlike Saturn, which seems like an eye, due to the viewing angle, this star’s halo was circular from the perspective of Earth. We were all looking at it, in the dream, and it was a sight to see. Something amazing. Just imagine a bright star with a circular halo around it. Everybody was looking at it in amazement for the halo, the ring around it was pulsating, becoming larger and smaller in its radius. It was beating like a heart, the ring increasing its size as it pulsated becoming larger, then smaller, as if it were a multistage implosion about to take place. It was an ominous feeling and people started seeking for shelter, running to their homes, trying to protect themselves from an explosion. Then, as the ring around the star collapsed for the very last time, and in an instant, as I was watching, I saw the bodies of people carbonized in an instant. The legs disintegrated and human bodies just fell on the ground, dark brown, unrecognizable. This event took but an instant, and the odd thing was how trees and homes were intact, as if nothing had happened. That’s the dream. I’ve kept the dream for many years, since 1981, when I had this dream I haven’t forgotten. Now that I hear everyone talking about Betelgeuse, I have come to understand that the Pyramids of Egypt were left there for us as a warning, so that we would look up to the sky, in the direction of Orion’s Belt. I am now convinced this great sign on the sky announces the end, the baptism by fire of Earth. When I see Betelgeuse dimming it reminds me of a tsunami, how water retreats before it comes at us with a vengeance. Yes, I am a Christian, and I believe we are living in prophetic times. Imagine if we are positioned right in the northern of southern axis of the star. The neutron star explosion would shoot a beam of gamma rays so strong it would obliterate Earth with its power. I am also wondering if the Sun has gone shy lately due to Betelgeuse electromagnetic influence, after all, it’s an Orange Supergiant with could end up creating a nebulae thousands of light years in diameter, putting Earth and our solar system inside that nebulae once it goes bye bye. Well, go to confession, repent before it’s too late. I’m sure once the phenomena starts there won’t be enough time to do it. We are in the Great Tribulation undoubtedly, for one fifth of humanity has been butchered inside the womb, 1,500 million thus far, 61 million in the USA, in a clear attempt to destroy the human family. It all is happening as it was written in the book of Revelation, right before the second coming of Jesus Christ in glory, to take us to a New Earth, in a New Universe. Believe me you, the sky will look a lot different after this Betelgeuse even takes place. Imagine being surrounded by a sky filled in blue and pink colors, a super bright night sky, as it has never happened on Earth before. However, I doubt there be any to contemplate such a sight, which makes me wonder. Who knows, we might have to leave this planet and see a brand new sky, somewhere else in the Universe. Are you ready to board “Noah’s Vessel” the New Jerusalem, heading to a brand new planet in your brand new bodies, because I honestly doubt our carbon based bodies will be able to withstand what’s coming. Now you know. I said it. Let it not be said I kept this intel to myself, I did share it, to as many as I could. (Don’t kill the messenger of Betelgeuse).
Whose the 32 dislikes!!
If you don't like this, clearly you don't like physics so don't watch video!!
cartoons kid
@spaghetti yummy what misinformation is that
spaghetti yummy that was probably a mistake in his wording
I find it curious that from what I have read, there is some uncertainty regarding how far away B is (I recall 450- 650 ly)- perhaps this star is expanding/contracting in apparent size at a rapid rate confounding conventional means of measurement.
It would be interesting to experiment to see what/if any ftl particles (tachyons etc.) that might be detected in advance of observing the actual supernova given our relative proximity to the event.
could be pretty cool thing to see though
Short answer: No
Long answer: Not in our lifetime.
Thanks Anton, You always explain it in terms even I can understand.