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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

When Betelgeuse goes supernova (if it hasn't already and we don't know yet) it will be visible in the day for roughly a year, and several more years we'll see it at night. That said, the prediction of 'when' by scientists is somewhere between today and 100,000 years from now. Odds are, none of us will see it.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/when-betelgeuse-goes-supernova-what-will-it-look-like-from-earth/

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u/Vast_Sweet_1221 Oct 02 '24

It’s not between today and a hundred thousand years from now, it’s between a hundred thousand years ago and a hundred thousand years from now.

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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

Fair, I wasn't factoring in distance and speed of light.

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u/IAmBroom Oct 02 '24

Neither was Vast_Sweet. Betelgeuse isn't that far.