Although we started the new year with the news of the possibility of the explosion of Betelgeuse, a group of astronomers produced different theories to explain the star’s blackening behavior. Scientists at the University of Washington and Lowell Observatory argued that there was still time for Betelgeuse to explode. UW Astronomy Professor Emily Levesque and an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory, Philip Massey, were admitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters and published in arXiv before being published, and the last observations of Betelgeuse were taken in the Flagstaff area of Arizona on February 14, 2020. She reported. The observatory also allowed specialists to calculate the star’s average surface temperature. Experts discovered that Betelgeuse was much warmer than expected. This discovery shows that some of the materials in Betelgeuse’s outer layers have been ruptured, something that is common to the red superdevens. “We always see this in red supergiants, and this is a normal part of their life cycle,” says Levesque. The red super giants spill material from their surface from time to time, and these spilled parts are concentrated like dust around the star. As it cools down and scatters, the dust grains absorb some of the light coming towards us and hinder our view. ” So, according to experts, the giant star does not approach the explosion, it is only slightly dusty. How is Betelgeuse really? In fact, the expectation of explosion still remains. Astronomers expect Betelgeuse’s core to explode as a supernova over the next 100 thousand years, which is counted in the normal flow. We also need to add here that measuring the temperature of a star is not a simple task. It is something we all know that scientists cannot hold a thermometer against a star and get any results. It is only possible to calculate the temperature by looking at the spectrum of light emanating from a star. New reports to be conveyed from studies in this direction, which have not been finalized yet, will reveal the fate of Betelgeuse. Is the giant star really fading or is everything moving?
