The red giant star Betelgeuse is closer than we thought — will its explosion affect earth?

7:00am PDT - October 19th, 2020    meteor shower - The Next Web

Betelgeuse is one of the best-known stars in the night sky, as well as the easiest to find. New examinations of this behemoth star suggest it is both smaller — and closer — than astronomers believed. This red giant star will, one day, explode as a supernova. …