This is exciting, of course, because Betelgeuse is living on borrowed time, and it could explode as a supernova any day now. Or, it might not detonate for another 100,000 years. What’s Betelgeuse up to? Is this a sign that it’s about to explode? https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/Audio Podcast version:ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audioWeekly email newsletter:https://www.universetoday.com/newsletterWeekly Space Hangout:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/Astronomy Cast:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSgSupport us at https://www.patreon.com/universetodayMore stories at https://www.universetoday.com/Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcainTwitter: @universetodayFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetodayInstagram - https://instagram.com/universetodayTeam: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected]Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fwChad Weber - [email protected]References:https://twitter.com/starstrickenSF/status/1209207523179237376https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-will-happen-when-betelgeuse-explodes-df5b04164b2https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/potw1726b/https://hubblesite.org/image/4027/galleryhttps://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0708a/http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13341https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/feature1.shtmlhttps://twitter.com/starstrickenSF/status/1209242710281986048https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~gk/A403/pulse.pdfhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01852.pdfhttps://aasnova.org/2018/01/03/astrophysics-of-red-supergiants/https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/sources/supernova-neutrinos/https://snews.bnl.gov/https://researchblog.duke.edu/2014/01/22/supernova-explosion-in-m82-exciting-but-no-neutrinos/https://aasnova.org/2018/04/20/capturing-neutrinos-from-a-stars-final-hours/https://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~jgl/nuastron.html