Today, it's on the brink of death: a huge, red ball of flame, glaring like a baleful, bloodshot eye before it winks out into a tiny pinprick of degenerate matter.
However, while we know that Betelgeuse's demise isn't imminent – at least on human timescales – we don't know exactly when it's going to happen. Or even how long since it puffed up into a red supergiant. The current best estimate is aroundBut we don't have to rely on just our observations of the star now. Humans have been recording the sky for millennia… and those ancient texts, Neuhäuser and his colleagues surmised, could contain the answer.
,"one can conclude that Betelgeuse at that time was in color between the blue-white Sirius and Bellatrix and the red Antares."De AstronomiaSolis stella… corpore est magno, coloure autem igneo, similis eius stellae quae est in humero dextro Orionis;… Hanc stellam nonnulli Saturni esse dixerunt… This is an even more solid example – the color of Betelgeuse compared to the color of the Sun, and of Saturn, which appears more tawny than red. Other stars described by these observers are given accurate hues, the researchers say, paying special attention to descriptions of Antares, red giant Aldebaran, and red giant Arcturus, all described as red.
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