BETELGEUSE SET TO EXPLODE…SOMETIME
January 21, 2011 / /
The red giant star Betelgeuse will probably explode... sometime, but it probably won't be in 2012...
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I just stumbled onto something. While following up something in The Reich
of the Black Sun p. 49, a Japanese cable saying Germans claimed to get
some specialized knowledge “via connection to the star system of Sirius,”
and looking for any indications of planets discovered there yet, I found on
Wikipedia something called the Red controversy. Sirius, now white or blue
looking, was reported red in one case red like Mars, by ancient writers,
before the second century AD. In that century is the last remark of it being
red, and the first Chinese astronomical records, which by the way, call it
white. Stellar evolution has been rejected as the cause because it doesn’t
seem unstable enough, but that is how it is now, not necessarily how it was
then.
That Sirius when close to the horizon twinkles many colors incl. red doesn’t
really explain this, because most of the time it is above the horizon. The
other stars called red back then are STILL red.
so something may have happened that happened very fast.