{"id":111308,"date":"2020-08-13T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/dying-breaths-of-a-massive-star-supernovae-that-result-from-pulsating-supergiants-like-betelgeuse"},"modified":"2020-08-13T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:32:01","slug":"dying-breaths-of-a-massive-star-supernovae-that-result-from-pulsating-supergiants-like-betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/dying-breaths-of-a-massive-star-supernovae-that-result-from-pulsating-supergiants-like-betelgeuse","title":{"rendered":"Dying Breaths of a Massive Star \u2013 Supernovae That Result From Pulsating Supergiants Like Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dying-breaths-of-a-massive-star-supernovae-that-result-from-pulsating-supergiants-like-betelgeuse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space enthusiasts are excited that Betelgeuse may soon go supernova, exploding in a dazzling display that could be visible even in daylight.<\/p>\n<p>While the famous star in Orion\u2019s shoulder will likely meet its demise within the next million years \u2014 practically couple days in cosmic time \u2014 scientists maintain that its dimming is due to the star pulsating. The phenomenon is relatively common among red supergiants, and Betelgeuse has been known for decades to be in this group.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have already made predictions about the brightness of the supernova that would result when a pulsating star like Betelgeuse explodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111308","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=111308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}