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