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Betelgeuse might explode (in the next 150,000 years) - Sixty Symbols

2020-03-05

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Professor Mike Merrifield pours some cold water on Betelgeuse - but also explains what will happen when it DOES explode.

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Mike is an astronomer at the University of Nottingham - he tweets here: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri

Neutrinos from Beta Processes in a Presupernova: Probing the Isotopic Evolution of a Massive Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa95c4/pdf

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