Betelgeuse will go supernova and explode … eventually. ESO In the Before Times, when the coronavirus had just begun his furious march across the world, our problems were much further away. About 640 light-years away, in fact. Astronomers observe Betelgeuse, a red redundant star, had amazed her by his mysterious …
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