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I was thinking it was a transit of some other celestial object in front of our vision.
by 0max 7y ago
I was thinking it was a transit of some other celestial object in front of our vision.
- dr_zoidberg 7y agoToo much dimming to be a transit. Betelgeuse is so large that we can map its "surface"[0] and even planets in our own solar system are so small[1] that something so large to cause such a substantial dimming would have been detected a long time ago. [0] see this from 2017 https://www.space.com/37344-alma-captures-clearest-image-of-betelgeuse.html https://www.space.com/37344-alma-captures-clearest-image-of-... [1] Jupiter is about the largest a planet can be, in the current conditions of our solar system -- that means Jupiter was larger when it was younger, but it's been cooling off and reducing its volume