[ExI] Betelgeuse

[John Clark]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:59 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Wow, very interesting.*
> *Is it true that if Betelgeuse was at the location of our sun, Earth would
> be inside of it?*
>

Betelgeuse is so huge even Jupiter would be inside it. It probably won't
happen soon but that dimming is a little suspicious and it's at a perfect
distance  (650 light years) from us to go supernova, far enough to be safe
but close enough to put on a great show.

 John K Clark
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