Betelgeuse
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1. Betelgeuse - Noun
2. Betelgeuse - Proper noun
Meaning
the second brightest star in Orion
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
Space is a wind that does not blow On Betelgeuse and time – oh time – is a bird, Whose wings have never stirred The golden avenues of leaves On Betelgeuse.
At its faintest, Betelgeuse will fall behind Deneb and Mimosa as 20th brightest star.
Although young, Betelgeuse has probably exhausted the hydrogen in its core—unlike its OB cousins born about the same time—causing it to contract under the force of gravity into a hotter and denser state.
Certain stars like Deneb and Betelgeuse are found above and to the right of the main sequence, more luminous or cooler than their equivalents on the main sequence.
As of 2014, theoretical calculations for a non-rotating star suggest Betelgeuse has developed a 3–main carbon-oxygen core which is being enlarged by deposition of fusion products from the surrounding helium shell at about a fifth of the star's radius.