BETELGEUSE'S IMAGES
This image, made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the red supergiant Betelgeuse — one of the largest stars known. In the millimeter continuum the star is around 1400 times larger than our Sun. The overlaid annotation shows how large the star is compared to the Solar System. Betelgeuse would engulf all four terrestrial planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — and even the gas giant Jupiter. Only Saturn would be beyond its surface. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/E. O’Gorman/P. Kervella (CC BY 4.0).
Orion's Constelation.
Orion constellation in the sky (Betelgeuse is identified by the marker), a zoom towards Betelgeuse, and the sharpest ever image of this supergiant star, which was obtained with NACO on ESO’s Very Large Telescope., image: ESO, P.Kervella, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and A. Fujii (CC BY 4.0)
This illustration plots changes in the brightness of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, following the titanic mass ejection of a large piece of its visible surface. The escaping material cooled to form a cloud of dust that temporarily made the star look dimmer, as seen from Earth. This unprecedented stellar convulsion disrupted the monster star’s 400-day-long oscillation period that astronomers had measured for more than 200 years. The interior may now be jiggling like a plate of gelatin dessert. Illustration: NASA, ESA, Elizabeth Wheatley (STScI) (PD)
This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. The scale in units of the radius of Betelgeuse as well as a comparison with the Solar System is also provided. Image: ESO/L. Calçada (CC BY 4.0)
Veja também:
- NUCLEOSSÍNTESE ESTELAR / STELLAR NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- O ESTRANHO CASO DE BETELGEUSE (Part 1 of 5)
- O ESTRANHO CASO DE BETELGEUSE (Part 2 of 5)
- O ESTRANHO CASO DE BETELGEUSE (Part 3 of 5)
- O ESTRANHO CASO DE BETELGEUSE (Part 4 of 5)
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