Why Betelgeuse (probably) isn't going to explode (yet) | Night Sky News January 2020

It’s night sky news time again - that means we can finally talk about Betelgeuse! As well as the possible new planet discovered around our closest star and another paper that's stirring up that crisis in cosmology. Timestamps and links to papers below. #stargazing #betelgeuse #astronomy


00:51 - Things to look out for in the night sky
04:22 - Betelgeuse and it’s weird dimming
10:12 - A new planet around Proxima Centauri
12:09 - Another hiccup for the crisis in cosmology - do supernova really explode with the same brightness everywhere?

Riess et al. 1998 -
Dolan et al. 14 -
Wong et al. 19 -
Kang et al. 19 -

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