Fact Sheet
Future Boomer
The star Betelgeuse, shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image, is destined to end its life as a supernova -- an explosion so powerful that it will briefly shine as brightly as hundreds of millions of normal stars. Betelgeuse is a supergiant star, which is many times as massive as the Sun. Such stars will live less than one percent as long as the Sun. [NASA/STScI]
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