{"id":100304,"date":"2019-12-30T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/betelguese-one-of-the-brightest-stars-in-the-sky-might-be-on-the-brink-of-explosion"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:44:27","slug":"betelguese-one-of-the-brightest-stars-in-the-sky-might-be-on-the-brink-of-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/betelguese-one-of-the-brightest-stars-in-the-sky-might-be-on-the-brink-of-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Betelguese, one of the brightest stars in the sky, might be on the brink of explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/betelguese-one-of-the-brightest-stars-in-the-sky-might-be-on-the-brink-of-explosion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) \u2014 One of the sky\u2019s brightest stars has been acting a little weird recently.<\/p>\n<p>Betelgeuse, a bright star in the constellation Orion, has been rapidly dimming since the beginning of December. It\u2019s already dimmed by a factor of two, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/betelgeuse-star-night-sky-supernova-explosion-a9263626.html\">Independent<\/a>, which makes the change visible to the naked eye. Betelgeuse was once the ninth brightest star in our sky, but after its dimming it doesn\u2019t even break the top 20 anymore, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2019\/12\/27\/is-betelgeuse-one-skys-brightest-stars-brink-supernova\/\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The star is known as a \u201cvariable\u201d star, which means it\u2019s characterized by cycles of brightening and dimming. However, scientists have never recorded it dimming so fast. Astronomers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomerstelegram.org\/?read=13341\">Villanova University<\/a> say this is an all time low in brightness for the star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) \u2014 One of the sky\u2019s brightest stars has been acting a little weird recently. Betelgeuse, a bright star in the constellation Orion, has been rapidly dimming since the beginning of December. It\u2019s already dimmed by a factor of two, according to the Independent, which makes the change visible to the naked eye. Betelgeuse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}