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Originally Posted by ricosuave
does that blow anyone elses mind? or is it just me?
the sun is a pin-prick next to it...
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The "size" is misleading. While it has ~1200 times the radius of the Sun, it is only about 18 times the mass.
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, and 99% of its "radius" is actually a million times more tenuous than the air you're breathing right now.
This article is ridiculously sensational journalism. Linking it to 2012 is beyond stupid. Thinly veiled attempt for website hits, and it will probably work.
Can't wait for all the facebook status updates about "two suns" and "2012" and blah blah blah.
If something "appeared" tens of millions of times brighter than the sun in our sky, we would all be insta-dead.
An article like this calls itself a science article, when it could more fittingly be called "anti-science".