Is Betelgeuse about to blow?

[Tomek]

Hi there,

I found this article from last June on the internets... I didn't find any mentions of Betelgeuse who is about to going supernova on the forum, so you might want to take a look at this :

_http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/01/is-betelgeuse-about-to-blow/

 

[Vulcan59]

Hi Polonel,

The conclusion of the article states the following;

So my personal opinion is that this is just another breathless rumor of astronomical doomsday that we get every couple of years. Even if any of the science of it is right, it doesn’t mean Betelgeuse is about to explode any day now. And since this is a rumor three times removed, I don’t put any stock in it. I’ll wait until I hear from named scientists with published or publishable data before I start to wonder if the star is about to blow.

So good idea to get more data. :)