Betelgeuse, a Supergiant star that was reportedly experiencing major decrease in its brightness, has now redeemed its original brightness as of today. This means that the reported Supernova or big explosion of the Supergiant star may not happen near soon since the dimness has officially stopped, according to astrologists.
False alert: Betelgeuse is NOT going to explode, but something's covering it, What is it?
On Saturday, Feb. 22, The Astronomer's Telegram released a report about the update of Betelgeuse. It said that the star has now officially stopped dimming its lights and may soon revive its original brightness once this phase continues over time.
As reported, "the star reached a mean light minimum of = 1.614 +/- 0.008 mag during 07-13 February 2020. This is approximately 424+/-4 days after the last (shallower: V ~ +0.9 mag) light minimum was observed in mid-December 2018. Betelgeuse has definitely stopped dimming and has started to brighten slowly. Thus this "fainting" episode is over, but additional photometry is needed to define the brightening phase."
Hoax: Supergiant star Betelgeuse will explode on Feb. 21
On Feb. 13, Tech Times reported that one of the biggest stars in the galaxy that is 20 times bigger than the mass of the Sun and as big as the estimated diameter size of both Mars and Jupiter's orbits will soon explode. After that, it would go Supernova for the next six months that will be seen on planet Earth.
Reportedly, the Supergiant star will be on its dimmest state on Feb. 21 wherein the planet Earth is expected to see major darkness all over the world since
It was reported that Betelgeuse-- one of the brightest stars-- started to dim its light on last year and early this year. It became a huge topic that the star will soon explode since Supernova starts in this phase.
However, now it is confirmed that the Supergiant star is starting to relive its original brightness again as Feb. continues-- meaning that there will be no firework explosion for planet Earth.
"As mentioned above, the star subsequently dimmed to ~1.6 mag during mid-February 2020. Observations of all kinds continue to be needed to understand the nature of this unprecedented dimming episode and what this surprising star will do next," said on the report.
Why does Betelgeuse dim back then
Belgian astronomer Miguel Montargès said that there are a lot of other possibilities of why the Supergiant star Betelgeuse has been dimming for the last couple of months. One of these is that it is just a normal phase that Supergiant experiences since Betelgeuse already cooled and puffed out into a red Supergiant back 40,000 years ago.
Another factor is that there might be a major giant dust cloud that resulted in its vast amount of materials and might block the star-- a region that is about the size of the orbit of Jupiter.
Anyways, it is final now that planet Earth will not be sighting a giant firework display with Betelgeuse.
