{"id":549,"date":"2009-06-12T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-06-12T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T23:56:22","slug":"when-you-wish-upon-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"When you wish upon a star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; better hope it doesn&#8217;t go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,525695,00.html\">kaboom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find this interesting, and suspect that many, if not most, people alive today may actually get to see this happen &#8230; as Betelgeuse shrinks, gravity effects will force the shrinkage to occur more rapidly. How exciting to be an astronomer when this occurs! Normally, we don&#8217;t know of nova before they explode; this time it appears that we&#8217;ll get to watch it on 600-year &#8220;tape delay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At that distance, I&#8217;d expect that we&#8217;d be ok, as long as it doesn&#8217;t send a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/transcripts\/2901_gamma.html\">death beam<\/a> in our direction.<\/p>\n<p>Update: You know, most 14-year-olds don&#8217;t get to <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefellowship.com\/News\/?p=9017\">discover their own supernova<\/a>, let alone one that&#8217;s a new type of stellar phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; better hope it doesn&#8217;t go kaboom. I find this interesting, and suspect that many, if not most, people alive today may actually get to see this happen &#8230; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}