![]() Scientists expect Betelgeuse to go supernova in a violent explosion within 100,000 years. With so many waysto play, the possibilities are endless Print on 8.5x11 or A4 paper No special tools or printers needed This Digital Download includes: 12. The resulting dust cloud temporarily blocked the starlight, NASA said, and within a half year, Betelgeuse was as bright as before. Scientists expect Betelgeuse to be short-lived, given its mass and the speed at which it's burning through its material.Īfter countless centuries of varying brightness, Betelgeuse dimmed dramatically in 2019 when a huge bunch of surface material was ejected into space. It's so huge that if it replaced our sun, it would stretch beyond Jupiter, according to NASA.Īt just 10 million years old, Betelgeuse is considerably younger than the 4.6 billion-year-old sun. This dramatic NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, showing 10 times more detail, reveals the 'ants' body as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.īetelgeuse is thousands of times brighter than our sun and some 700 times bigger. From ground-based telescopes, the so-called 'ant nebula' (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant. Binoculars and small telescopes will enhance the view. The Space Telescope Science Institute conducts Hubble science operations. NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center manages the telescope. ![]() The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. "Which scenario we will see is uncertain, making the event even more intriguing," said astronomer Gianluca Masa, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project, which will provide a live webcast from Italy.Īn estimated 700 light-years away, Betelgeuse is visible with the naked eye. Here are a few of our favorite Hubble Space Telescope images. If it's a total eclipse, astronomers aren't sure how many seconds the star will disappear completely, perhaps up to 10 seconds. Rather, the result could be a "ring of fire" eclipse with a miniscule blazing border around the star. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. It's unclear if the asteroid will obscure the entire star, producing a total eclipse. There are lingering uncertainties over those predictions as well as the size of the star and its expansive atmosphere. By observing an eclipse of a much dimmer star by Leona in September, a Spanish-led team recently estimated the asteroid to be about 55 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers long. The asteroid is Leona, a slowly rotating, oblong space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.Īstronomers hope to learn more about Betelgeuse and Leona through the eclipse, which is expected to last no more than 15 seconds. The star is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. The rare and fleeting spectacle, late Monday into early Tuesday, should be visible to millions of people along a narrow path stretching from central Asia's Tajikistan and Armenia, across Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain, to Miami and the Florida Keys and finally, to parts of Mexico. It is only surpassed in the size and activity by "the king of stellar nurseries", 30 Doradus, located at the opposite side of LMC.One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. N11 is the second largest star-forming region in LMC. It is a subregion within a larger area of star formation called N11. One of these star-forming region, N11B, is shown in this Hubble image. Our neighbourhood galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) lies in the Constellation of Dorado and is sprinkled with a number of regions harbouring recent and ongoing star formation. With its high resolution, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to view details of star formation in the LMC as easily as ground-based telescopes are able to observe stellar formation within our own Milky Way galaxy. The star-forming region, catalogued as N11B lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), located only 160,000 light-years from Earth. The NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the iridescent tapestry of star birth in a neighbouring galaxy in this panoramic view of glowing gas, dark dust clouds, and young, hot stars.
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