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Betelgeuse the star
krupski:
--- Quote from: edy on January 24, 2020, 05:11:42 pm ---Let's just hope it's ejection beam isn't pointed directly at us. :-) Is there any way to figure out the rotation axis of that star, or any distant star for that matter? Star Wars Death Star planet-killer comes to mind.
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Betelgeuse rotational axis is about 20 degrees off pointing directly at us. Of course we don't know what kind of gyrations it may make as it's collapsing.
Whats very interesting is that Betelgeuse has recently dimmed significantly. Occlusion by dust, or ready to blow?
We'll know when there is a blazing bright spot in Orion, that fades away over the course of a few months.
Alex Eisenhut:
--- Quote from: David Hess on February 09, 2020, 04:39:09 am ---The Man-Kzin novel Destiny's Forge by Paul Chafe is excellent if you can put up with a retelling of the plot from Dune.
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One author I like is Donald Kingsbury. Dude can write. He played around in the Foundation universe (unauthorized) with the book Psychohistorical Crisis. It's great! He also tooled around in Known Space.
Nominal Animal:
Has anyone else read Edward T Yeatts III's Lords of Kobol series, a free fan prequel/background to Battlestar Galactica and Caprica? I found them entertaining.
coppercone2:
I refuse to go outside and look. Maybe there was a star maybe there was no star to begin with. Not my business. I keep my hands clean of politics. I do believe there should be a compensation for the energy lost however, based on all the decisions and calculations that occurred with the idea that the star had existed, in order to keep deals in a favorable light.
This has an quality effect on solar power manufacturers and gravitational lensing systems capabilities.
RoGeorge:
Source
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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