{"id":3588,"date":"2019-12-17T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:40:48","slug":"betelgeuse-fades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/betelgeuse-fades\/","title":{"rendered":"Betelgeuse Fades &#8211; But not likely to go supernova."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-0-0\">When the weather gives you a chance, get out and have a look at the bright red giant star <\/span><span class=\"_5zk7\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-1-0\">Betelgeuse<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-2-0\"> in the right shoulder of <\/span><span class=\"_5zk7\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-3-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-3-0\">Orion<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-4-0\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-4-0\">It looks like it may have dimmed quiet a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Betelgeuse can be quite variable, and has a complex light curve.<\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-4-0\">It has done something like this before.<br \/>\nBut it is the faintest the star has been for 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you listen to Brian Cox, he will tell you that Betelgeuse is likely to go supernova at any time.<br \/>\nBut is it just about to? Probably not!<\/p>\n<p>See more details on these Web sites:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/betelgeuse-is-fainting-but-its-not-about-to-explode-probably\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/betelgeuse-is-fainting-but-its-not-about-to-explode-probably<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/astroblogger.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/betelgeuse-fades.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/astroblogger.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/betelgeuse-fades.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So go out and have a look and see if you can see any difference from the last time you saw it.<\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"8g5tb-4-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3590 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObservingOrion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObservingOrion.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObservingOrion-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObservingOrion-140x210.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Betelgeuse Fades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the weather gives you a chance, get out and have a look at the bright red giant star Betelgeuse in the right shoulder of Orion. It looks like it may have dimmed quiet a bit. Betelgeuse can be quite variable, and has a complex light curve. It has done something like this before. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Betelgeuse Fades - But not likely to go supernova. - Star-Gazing","description":"When the weather gives you a chance, get out and have a look at the bright red giant star Betelgeuse in the right shoulder of Orion . It looks like it may have"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}