Orion ....Betelgeuse fading

[johncorrigan]

Wasn't Beetle-juice also a Hitch-hikers Guide thing or am I mis-remembering?

I seem to recall that Betelgeuse was the home system of Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox, ooo. Tharg the Mighty, the Editor of the comic 2000AD, is also from Betelgeuse.

[Flay]

Betelgeuse I think is a semi-variable red giant

Different shades of cochineal?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Orion is one of the most well-known constellations across the universe — ..."

That's a pretty bold statement. I wouldn't have thought many life-forms would have seen Orion from outside our own galaxy.

[eighthobstruction]

....syntax, syntax, more infinte than the universe itself....

[kernelbogey]

....does anyone remember Patrick Moore on Sky at Night pronouncing it Beetle-Juice?

Could he have been thinking of betel-chewing?

[Keraulophone]

Could this be due to global warming?

...or even

Galactic warming? ...’red geyser’ galaxies and all that:

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/supermassive-black-holes-cause-galactic-warming/

.

[Keraulophone]

That's a pretty bold statement. I wouldn't have thought many life-forms would have seen Orion from outside our own galaxy.

[Dave2002]

...or even

Galactic warming? ...’red geyser’ galaxies and all that:

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/supermassive-black-holes-cause-galactic-warming/

.

Very interesting - didn't know about this.

Went out last night and looked at the stars - very clear. Orion was there - so was Betelgeuse. I don't think the stars are falling out of the sky just yet.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very interesting - didn't know about this.

Went out last night and looked at the stars - very clear. Orion was there - so was Betelgeuse. I don't think the stars are falling out of the sky just yet.

Only on "Love Island", where they do all the time, anyway.

[Richard Tarleton]

I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...