Now, scientists are predicting it will almost disappear from view altogether, albeit briefly, on December 12.
Scientists predict a passing asteroid named 319 Leona will block Betelgeuse's view from Earth for up to five seconds โ in the same way as the moon eclipses the sun.
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Check your local time zones. It's Dec 11th for many. I think about 8pm Dec 11 for EST Americas
This feels very clickbait lol, thought we somehow knew it was about to go off in a human timescale instead of an astronomical one
This is talking about an occultation of betelgeuse (happening next week) not the impending supernova of betelgeuse (could be tomorrow could be 10,000 years from now).
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Were any videos posted of this event? The live stream was canceled due to cloud coverage.