Zaphod Beeblebrox's home star gone supernova?
- Thread starter Technomage
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I always knew Orion the Hunter had a bad shoulder from raising his striking arm for all those centuries, but this is ridiculous.
But seriously...
[reaches for the fairy cake]
Here's another report:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/06/09/red.giant.star.betelgeuse.mysteriously.shrinking
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/betelgeuse_shrinkage/ said:
But seriously...
That's some impressive shrinkage. I guess it's all a matter of Total Perspective...http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/betelgeuse_shrinkage/ said:
[reaches for the fairy cake]
Here's another report:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/06/09/red.giant.star.betelgeuse.mysteriously.shrinking
Wow, that should make an impressive sight in the sky; they don't seem to have any sort of estimate of when it may go critical. Hopefully nobody is living nearby....
Plecostomus
Commodore
*sigh*
I'll go get the red-matter ready.
I'll go get the red-matter ready.
Sweet zombie Jesus! I've just done a quick calculation so I may well be wrong, but it seems that Betelgeuse has lost 1/3 of its volume in 16 years.
And for those who don't know just how big Betelgeuese is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38ri8vQjRU
Sweet zombie Jesus! I've just done a quick calculation so I may well be wrong, but it seems that Betelgeuse has lost 1/3 of its volume in 16 years.
And for those who don't know just how big Betelgeuese is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38ri8vQjRU
I think there may be some confusion here. It's radius has shrunk by a distance equal to the radius of Venus' orbit. Not to the radius of Venus' orbit. Or roughly a loss of %15 of it's size as the OP stated.
*sigh*
I'll go get the red-matter ready.
Better leave early- you know how bitchy the Romulans get about these things.
Plecostomus
Commodore
*sigh*
I'll go get the red-matter ready.
Better leave early- you know how bitchy the Romulans get about these things.
Can I borrow your Borg-enhanced mining ship please?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
So we're not going to see it go Nova then?
Yeah, I realise that, but it still seems to have shrunk by a third.Sweet zombie Jesus! I've just done a quick calculation so I may well be wrong, but it seems that Betelgeuse has lost 1/3 of its volume in 16 years.
And for those who don't know just how big Betelgeuese is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38ri8vQjRU
I think there may be some confusion here. It's radius has shrunk by a distance equal to the radius of Venus' orbit. Not to the radius of Venus' orbit. Or roughly a loss of %15 of it's size as the OP stated.
Jupiter is roughly 5.2 AUs from the sun while Venus is roughly 0.7 AUs so Betelgeuse's new size is roughly 4.5 AUs. The volume of sphere is calculated by 4/3πr³ so its old volume would have been 589AU³ and its new volume should be 382AU³, that's a loss of more than a third.
Can anyone see where I might have gone wrong?
Yeah, I realise that, but it still seems to have shrunk by a third.Sweet zombie Jesus! I've just done a quick calculation so I may well be wrong, but it seems that Betelgeuse has lost 1/3 of its volume in 16 years.
And for those who don't know just how big Betelgeuese is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P38ri8vQjRU
I think there may be some confusion here. It's radius has shrunk by a distance equal to the radius of Venus' orbit. Not to the radius of Venus' orbit. Or roughly a loss of %15 of it's size as the OP stated.
Jupiter is roughly 5.2 AUs from the sun while Venus is roughly 0.7 AUs so Betelgeuse's new size is roughly 4.5 AUs. The volume of sphere is calculated by 4/3πr³ so its old volume would have been 589AU³ and its new volume should be 382AU³, that's a loss of more than a third.
Can anyone see where I might have gone wrong?
Your math looks right. I think some posters were under the impression that the star was now %15 of it's original size. I was just trying to clear that up.
Another series' canon blown to hell.
god are we going to have to have a minute silence, to remeber something that may or may not exist.