Talk:Betelgeuse
Latest comment: 11 months ago by Macdonald-ross in topic Betelgeuse may already have passed
Betelgeuse may already have passed change
Given that Betelgeuse, as it appears to us, is, as the article states, 640 light years away, it may already have gone supernova. This is not a small point. Astronomy articles often refer to distant stars as if they were still as they appear now.---92.40.215.203 (talk) 15:10, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, quite so, but we can only describe what we can see! Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:19, 5 June 2023 (UTC)