Images of Betelgeuse show it as an orange disk. Bright and dark spots give it a mottled appearance.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/364/388/714/246/087/original/19505e93f1149d5b.jpg
Remember when Betelgeuse didn't blow up?
But it blew *out*. Dust, that is, and a lot of it. Like, the unit "gigaton" is postively smashed flat by the amount it disgorged.
So here's what it looked like in the infrared as it did that.
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/mars-sample-non-return-betelgeuse
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.