Betelgeuse Going Supernova soon-ish?

[Ded10c]

I'm waiting for that unified equation thing. Wonder how long it will be before people finally understand gravity...

[hitchcockgreen]

We've been waiting a long time already.

And as long as you don't want a theory that's practically testable...
String Theory and M-Theory resolve all four forces nicely....
....as long as you don't mind being unable to test it in the real world.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

Ran across this very sweet HR Diagram

[Ranger]

i know that this is a long gif but what if could happen if canis majoris goes hypernova?

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/a ... 986200.gif

[hitchcockgreen]

There is a YouTube video similar to that GIF. Maybe even the base for that GIF.
And to answer your question; not much. At least for us. Kind of far away.

[Blunt Force Trauma]

As I mentioned several posts back, a star like Canis Majoris, even if it is only 1/4 as big (as some astronomers speculate), and it was in our system and we were the same distance as we are from our sun, and we could tolerate the proximity, it would fill our sky completely during the day.