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Astronomy Picture of the Day – SN Candidate Betelgeuse to Scale (2020)
- bscphil 7y agoEditorialized title: real title is "Betelgeuse Imagined". But the real lede here is buried: "Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most recognized stars in the night sky, is only half as bright as it used to be only five months ago." This is actually quite shocking to me, I'm very surprised I hadn't heard about it until now.
- chupa-chups 7y agoActually, the real title is > A plume on Betelgeuse Nasa itself links to https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0927d/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0927d/.
- bscphil 7y agoSee the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "please use the original title" -> in this case that means "APOD: 2020 January 1 - Betelgeuse Imagined" which is literally the page title. I think in this case "Astronomy Picture of the Day: Betelgeuse Imagined" would be acceptable.
- nkrisc 7y agoI'm hoping it went supernova sometime around 1320 CE to 1370 CE. (It's about 700 lightyears away)