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Podcast: SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
Episode: 03: Is Betelgeuse About to Blow?
Description: *Is Betelgeuse about to blow?The red supergiant Betelgeuse is dimming unusually and astronomers donβt know why. The strange activity is causing growing speculation that it may be about to go supernova --or maybe not.*Discovery of the earliest known cannibalismAstronomers have discovered the earliest known example of galactic cannibalism β an observation dating back some 13 billion years.*The Milky Way galaxyOkay, so we all know that we live on a small terrestrial planet orbiting a small yellow dwarf star in the Milky Way galaxy. But what do you really know about the Milk...