At about 950 times bigger than our Sun, Betelgeuse is one of the biggest stars in our Universe. But that comes with a price.

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Betelgeuse, also known as Bal Juice, is a colossal red supergiant in the constellation Orion, roughly 600 light-years away from Earth. With a luminosity around 100,000 times that of our Sun, it has ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn't been ...

Easy. Get a dog from the animal shelter, care for it for 15 years and study it. Bruce Palmquist is a professor of physics, science and mathematics at Central Washington University.