Post by bondservant on Jan 17, 2020 12:14:32 GMT -6
During the Christmas break we sat around a fire pit and one of my daughters asked me why did one of the stars look red. I pulled out 1 of my APPs to see what star it was and was surprised to see that it was the star named Betelgeuse located in Orion. I recalled an article I read a day or 2 earlier. I didn’t know how to pronounce the star and was butchering the pronunciation when my other daughter corrected me with it is spelled phonetically as "Beetlejuice". I thought it was weird because I often say “art imitates reality”. I never really cared for the movie Beetlejuice especially after learning that it was about a demon. I tried to look into some more information as to why Tim Burton used this name etc etc… I was left with more questions than answers.
This really intrigues me because Orion is one of the few constellations mentioned by name in the Bible.
Since then, I have been seeing several articles on Betelgeuse.
Psalm 8:3-6
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psalm 89:5-8 (ESV)
Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
6 For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
7 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?
Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Finally Explode?
"Betelgeuse, a reddish star that's one of the brightest in the night sky, has been noticeably "fainting," or getting dimmer. The approximately 8.5 million-year-old star, which is part of the Orion constellation, has been one of the most recognizable stars in the sky because of its brightness and coloration. But this recent, dramatic fading has prompted scientists to suggest that the star might be entering a pre-supernova phase, dimming before it collapses and "dies" in a fiery supernova explosion. "
MORE:
www.space.com/dimming-star-betelgeuse-red-giant-could-explode-supernova.html
Bright star Betelgeuse might be harboring a deep, dark secret
"The giant red star Betelgeuse might be harboring a gruesome secret in its past. A new model posits that the prominent night-sky object was once two stars, until the larger star ate its smaller companion. And that could explain several of Betelgeuse's peculiar properties.
Betelgeuse is a whopper of a star, with a diameter of 600 million miles (965 million kilometers), bigger than the orbit of Mars, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. At a relatively close distance of 520 light-years from Earth, Betelgeuse is also one of the few stars whose surface features can be resolved with telescopes."
MORE:
www.space.com/betelgeuse-may-have-been-two-stars.html
This really intrigues me because Orion is one of the few constellations mentioned by name in the Bible.
Since then, I have been seeing several articles on Betelgeuse.
Psalm 8:3-6
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psalm 89:5-8 (ESV)
Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
6 For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
7 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?
Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Finally Explode?
"Betelgeuse, a reddish star that's one of the brightest in the night sky, has been noticeably "fainting," or getting dimmer. The approximately 8.5 million-year-old star, which is part of the Orion constellation, has been one of the most recognizable stars in the sky because of its brightness and coloration. But this recent, dramatic fading has prompted scientists to suggest that the star might be entering a pre-supernova phase, dimming before it collapses and "dies" in a fiery supernova explosion. "
MORE:
www.space.com/dimming-star-betelgeuse-red-giant-could-explode-supernova.html
Bright star Betelgeuse might be harboring a deep, dark secret
"The giant red star Betelgeuse might be harboring a gruesome secret in its past. A new model posits that the prominent night-sky object was once two stars, until the larger star ate its smaller companion. And that could explain several of Betelgeuse's peculiar properties.
Betelgeuse is a whopper of a star, with a diameter of 600 million miles (965 million kilometers), bigger than the orbit of Mars, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. At a relatively close distance of 520 light-years from Earth, Betelgeuse is also one of the few stars whose surface features can be resolved with telescopes."
MORE:
www.space.com/betelgeuse-may-have-been-two-stars.html