Betelgeuse

[Anonymous No.2372455]

Will Betelgeuse go Supernova within one human lifetime from this day? Factors in support of your answer.

[Anonymous No.2372466]

it already has, the light just hasn't reached us yet, so we can't see it

[Anonymous No.2372465]

No because it's statistically improbable.

[Anonymous No.2372487]

I don't know. I'm the wisest man on /sci/.

[Anonymous No.2372495]

paging wisest woman

[Anonymous No.2372520]

>>2372495
You do remember this is /sci/, right? There are no women.

[Anonymous No.2372531]

wut? not even a dyke?

[Anonymous No.2372538]

Pawssibly? I think it still has time, but I have no facts to back it up. It would be incredible if it did explode in my lifetime.t

[Anonymous No.2372542]

Just keep an eye on Orion's armpit.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.2372548]

Betelgeuse could go supernova any time between now-subjective and a few million years-subjective.

Subjective because when the light reaches it 500 years would've passed, so it's only from our own subjective POV.

[Anonymous No.2372634]

ok - so the question then is: Will we realize Betelgeuse has gone Supernova within one human lifetime from this day? Factors in support of your answer.

[Anonymous No.2372681]

>>2372634
inb4 2012

[Anonymous No.2373212]

Canis majoris is so hardcore. Imagine how many goddamn atoms there are in it.

[Anonymous No.2373239]

i love big suns. What if it does but we miss it?

[Anonymous No.2373269]

The star Betelgeuse went supernova roughly around 1371 C.E. Wait, wait for it... ah! There it is! Take a look outside, you should be able to see it right now.

[Anonymous No.2374781]

>>2373212
wht doesnt it accidentially a blackhole?

[Anonymous No.2374793]

>>2373239
>suns
No.

[Anonymous No.2374803]

>>2374793
>S: (n) sun (any star around which a planetary system revolves)
Maybe he specifically likes stars with planetary systems

[Anonymous No.2374820]

>>2373212
The bitch is MASSIVE. I'd love to spank that BIG RED BOOTY...

[Anonymous No.2374834]

Fuck that shit.
ηCarinae FTW!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae

[Samefag !SHjzCSZsqE No.2374837]

>>2374834
Giant space testicles are win.

[Anonymous No.2374841]

is it pronounced beetle juice?

[Anonymous No.2374847]

>>2374841
If I'm not mistaken, Beetlejuice's real name in the film was Betelgeuse.

[Anonymous No.2374851]

>>2374841
I pronounce it "bettle-guys"

[Anonymous No.2374864]

>>2374841

The last part of the name, "-elgeuse", comes from the Arabic الجوزاء al-Jauzā', a historical Arabic name of the constellation Orion, a feminine name in old Arabian legend, and of uncertain meaning. Because جوز j-w-z, the root of jauzā', means "middle", al-Jauzā' roughly means "the Central One". Later, al-Jauzā' was also designated as the scientific Arabic name for Orion and for Gemini. The current Arabic name for Orion is الجبار al-Jabbār ("the Giant"), although the use of الجوزاء al-Jauzā' in the name of the star has continued.

[Anonymous No.2374866]

>>2374864
There is some uncertainty surrounding the first element of the name, rendered as "Bet-".
In his 1863 work Star-Names and Their Meanings, American amateur naturalist Richard Hinckley Allen stated the derivation was from the ابط الجوزاء Ibṭ al-Jauzah, which he claimed degenerated into a number of forms including Bed Elgueze, Beit Algueze, Bet El-gueze, Beteigeuze and more, to the (then) current forms Betelgeuse, Betelguese, Betelgueze and Betelgeux. The star was named Beldengeuze in the Alfonsine Tables, and Italian Jesuit priest and astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli had called it Bectelgeuze or Bedalgeuze.
Paul Kunitzsch, Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Munich, refuted Allen's derivation and instead proposed that the full name is a corruption of the Arabic يد الجوزاء Yad al-Jauzā' meaning "the Hand of al-Jauzā', i.e., Orion.[107] European mistransliteration into medieval Latin led to the first character y (ﻴ, with two dots underneath) being misread as a b (ﺒ, with only one dot underneath). During the Renaissance, the star's name was written as بيت الجوزاء Bait al-Jauzā' ("house of Orion") or بط الجوزاء Baţ al-Jauzā', incorrectly thought to mean "armpit of Orion" (a true translation of "armpit" would be ابط, transliterated as Ibţ). This led to the modern rendering as Betelgeuse.

[Anonymous No.2374869]

>>2374866
Other writers have since accepted Kunitzsch's explanation. The 17th century English translator Edmund Chilmead gave it the name Ied Algeuze ("Orion's Hand"), from Christmannus.

Other Arabic names recorded include Al Yad al Yamnā ("the Right Hand"), Al Dhira ("the Arm"), and Al Mankib ("the Shoulder"), all appended to "of the giant",[12] as منكب الجوزاء Mankib al Jauzā'. In Persian, however, the name is اِبطالجوزا, derived from the Arabic ابط الجوزاء Ibţ al-Jauzā', "armpit of Orion".
Betelgeuse was the fourth nakshatra Ardra "Moist" in Hindi, and associated with the god Rudra. Allen linked Orion's association with stormy weather to that of this deity of storms.[12] Bahu was its Sanskrit name, as part of a Hindu understanding of the constellation as a running antelope or stag. Other terms included the Persian Bašn "the Arm" via Brown, and Coptic Klaria "an Armlet".

[Anonymous No.2374874]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/betelgeuse

click the audio sign, it pronounces it for you

[Anonymous No.2374889]

Exactly what will Betelgeuse look like from Earth when it goes supernova?

I mean will it act like a second sun and make the day longer, or will it just be a large ball of light that we can see at night?

[Anonymous No.2374912]

Only if you say it's name 3 times.

[Anonymous No.2374916]

Is it pronounced bettel-goose, or Beetlejuice?

[Anonymous No.2374943]

Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse
>star goes super nova

[Anonymous No.2374946]

Betelgeuse is just a geuss.