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Betelgeuse

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Not a clear night  for the last 10 days, but tonight I had the chance to get 1 single frame of 10 minutes, maybe I would have more time, I was undecided between Betelgeuse or Sirius.

The red supergiant Betelgeuse was not always this way. Once upon a time, the star was a main-sequence monster – a blue-white O-type star, the most massive stellar weight class, fusing hydrogen like it was going out of style. As it reached the end of this live-fast-die-young lifestyle, it would have turned a more golden hue. 
Betelgeuse, just 700 or so light-years away, is one of the biggest, and brightest, stars in our sky – a giant star at the end of its life.
It's almost burnt through its reserves of hydrogen, the fusion of which in the core of a star powers that star throughout its life. Instead, it's now working its way through its helium, the fusion of which into carbon and oxygen has caused the star to expand outwards to gargantuan size.
Once it has run out of material to fuse, the star will go supernova; its core will probably collapse into a neutron star.

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Title: gases winds from Betelgeuse

Description: My first image I just stretch and apply dynamic background extraction, this version I tried to define some of the gases winds from Betelgeuse, the results are not what I expected, the main issue I have only one frame of 600 s

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