If You Say Betelgeuse Thrice

Will It Go Supernova

Super Negative Betelgeuse Massive Star

 

Beetle Star In The Astronomy News

Amateur Astronomer’s Always Have Something To Say About Orion

With my buddy Orion

 

 

 

Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars currently known — with a radius around 1400 times larger than the Sun’s in the millimeter continuum. About 600 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), the red supergiant burns brightly, causing it to have only a short life expectancy.

The star is just about eight million years old, but is already on the verge of becoming a supernova.

 

When that happens, the resulting explosion will be visible from Earth, even in broad daylight.

 

The Betlegeuse Orion Files

Back Soon In The Sky Near You 

Orion Hunter Mythology Story 

 

night sky super star

Betelgeuse in Orion

Making the most of seeing the magnificent Orion Constellation in the last week. The most distinctive and interesting of all the constellations in the Northern Hemisphere.

Starting with Betelgeuse (or beetlejuice if you prefer! )

Always new things being discovered – Result for Betelgeuse then!

Only last month, the speed of the star has been questioned – Post on Phys Site, December 2016.

In the Super Star Constellation – Orion.

I’m always so pleased to see it back in the sky!

Orion The Hunter

 

See Orion Now – Before it goes until autumn

Orion Coleyartastro

History of the Universe Research 

Orion for the next generation – and this one. Simply get them interested in space..see this CBEEB.

Looped QG

Look at Orion in the dark sky before it has gone for months..

The bbc version of the big bang

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See Orion Now – Before it goes until autumn

Orion Coleyartastro

History of the Universe Research 

Orion for the next generation – and this one. Simply get them interested in space..see this CBEEB.

Looped QG

Look at Orion in the dark sky before it has gone for months..

The bbc version of the big bang

View On WordPress

See Orion Now – Before it goes until autumn

History of the Universe Research 

Orion for the next generation – and this one. Simply get them interested in space..see this CBEEB.

Looped QG

Look at Orion in the dark sky before it has gone for months..

The bbc version of the big bang

astronomy breakfast

Fried Egg Galaxy  NGC 7742

The galaxy is unusual in that it contains a ring but no bar. Typically, bars are needed to produce a ring structure. The bars’ gravitational forces move gas to the ends of the bars, where it forms into the rings seen in many barred spiral galaxies. In this galaxy, however, no bar is present, so this mechanism cannot be used to explain the formation of the ring. O. K.…

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astronomy breakfast

Fried Egg Galaxy  NGC 7742

The galaxy is unusual in that it contains a ring but no bar. Typically, bars are needed to produce a ring structure. The bars’ gravitational forces move gas to the ends of the bars, where it forms into the rings seen in many barred spiral galaxies. In this galaxy, however, no bar is present, so this mechanism cannot be used to explain the formation of the ring. O. K.…

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astronomy breakfast

Fried Egg Galaxy  NGC 7742

The galaxy is unusual in that it contains a ring but no bar. Typically, bars are needed to produce a ring structure. The bars’ gravitational forces move gas to the ends of the bars, where it forms into the rings seen in many barred spiral galaxies. In this galaxy, however, no bar is present, so this mechanism cannot be used to explain the formation of the ring. O. K. Sil’chenko and A. V. Moiseev proposed that the ring was formed partly as the result of a merger event in which a smaller gas-rich dwarf galaxy collided with NGC 7742.

As evidence for this, they point to the unusually bright central region, the presence of highly inclined central gas disk, and the presence of gas that is counterrotating (or rotating in the opposite direction) with respect to the stars.

Galaxy Fried Egg

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