WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO BETELGEUSE?

[kriss]

The red supergiant Betelgeuse, a colossal star in the Orion constellation, experienced a massive stellar eruption – the likes of which have never been seen before, according to astronomers.

Betelgeuse first drew attention in late 2019 when the star, which glitters like a red gem in the upper-right shoulder of Orion, experienced an unexpected darkening. The supergiant continued to grow dim in 2020.

Some scientists speculated that the star would explode as a supernova, and they’ve been trying to determine what happened to it ever since.

Now, astronomers have analyzed data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, and they believe the star experienced a titanic surface mass ejection, losing a substantial part of its visible surface.

“We’ve never before seen a huge mass ejection of the surface of a star. We are left with something going on that we don’t completely understand,” said Andrea Dupree, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a statement.

“It’s a totally new phenomenon that we can observe directly and resolve surface details with Hubble. We’re watching stellar evolution in real time.” ..................... See pictures at www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/world/betelgeuse-star-recovery-scn/index.html

Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky, in the constellation of Orion. Classified as a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2, Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. Orion is one of the few constellations mentioned by name in scripture

Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Perhaps this is just the beginning of more signs in the heavens to come ?

[tim-from-pa]

This is interesting. I knew for awhile that Betelgeuse was quite variable, and that it dimmed lately, but this is the first I heard about that CME type blowout (shame on me). I looked at some of the charts and it appears to me that there was a massive blowout and as the ejection went away it cooled and maybe the obstruction was part of the dimming. I do believe with a blow-out is from the star collapsing in upon itself (which would actually cause a temporary brightening) and the shock wave and recoil is so great that it ejects out some of the outer layer. Sometimes this forms a ring nebula. However, what is interesting in this situation was that the star must have cooled enough for gravity to pull in an extra amount to implode. This was a big one. In short, this star is dying and some of the symptoms are getting worse. Unfortunately, the human lifespan is too short to see that even a star's death process is far longer than human life. We may have to witness something like this in the Kingdom to come as the Lord's fireworks. LOL Another thing that we often overlook is that we are looking back in time hundreds of years with a star like that. If we could instantly transport there, I wonder what we would see?