Stephanie 🎀I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.
It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt
Edu@BeamsAndBows Cool. Being Sirius the brightest star in the night sky, that supernova will make a good show. Also I guess poor Sirius (A) will not be able to drain its battery.
@el_gran_edu Sirius A isn’t massive enough to go supernova. Like its sibling Sirius B, it will end in a planetary nebula and will become a white dwarf. I’ve looked up the possibility of B taking mass from A and going supernova, but it doesn’t look like that will happen, either.
@BeamsAndBows That's very interesting. Thanks for the clarification. Maybe Betelgeuse can give us a nice supernova we can watch from a safe distance? But most probably not in our lifetime.
@el_gran_edu I’m hoping Betelgeuse will give us a show! That all depends on what’s fusing in the core, and scientists are quite limited in ways to determine that. Some articles have speculated a supernova could be just decades down the road. It also could be millennia away. Again, that depends on what it’s been fusing.