What will you do with 24 hour daylight?
Sometime in the near future Betelgeuse will supernova with a brilliance so great that for one to two weeks, there will be no night. We will have two :suns; by day and one by night.
Betelgeuse is a red giant star only 640 light years from Earth. It is already the second brightest star in the Orion constellation and the ninth brightest in the night sky. We don’t know exactly when it will explode, but when it does, it will shine with a brilliance rivaling tat of our sun for a brief period. What will you do with the extra daylight? How can we sleep when something so rare is there to be observed. In its 4.3 billion year life, Earth has likely never before seen such a bright supernova.
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