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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
Ricardus@BeamsAndBows This is super freakin cool.
Catherine Berry@BeamsAndBows , I love this!! I didn't know Sirius A was that young, only 1/4 of the way through its short-ish lifespan.
@isomeme It’s actually the same age as Sirius B. Sirius B was a lot more massive (5x sun’s mass) than Sirius A (2x Sun’s mass), and burned through its fuel much more quickly as a result. Think of stars as like cars- the bigger they are, the faster they go through their fuel.
Arthur Vincie@BeamsAndBows @isomeme wow. So what will happen to Sirius B?
@chaoticsequence @isomeme over a very long time, Sirius B will cool down to a very dense, very cold sphere called a black dwarf.
@BeamsAndBows @isomeme cool, thank you!
@BeamsAndBows , yep, I should have been clearer -- I meant that Sirius A is much younger than Sol.
Sabse@BeamsAndBows what a fun idea! But that Betelgeuse one must be blinking 😀
DemocracyMatters 
@BeamsAndBows Our sun's at 50%?! I'm packing a bag now...
Rebecca@BeamsAndBows Where's my damn charging cable?! 50% makes me uneasy!
Sam@rebecca_meadows @BeamsAndBows
cue musk's mission to recharge the sun using a massive array of solar panels
cue musk's mission to recharge the sun using a massive array of solar panels
@ozofriendly @rebecca_meadows why can’t he just jump into the sun instead?
YOGA~ZEN 🙏
Rupert 🇪🇺🏴☠️😾🔭📷🍺🍪🌍🔥@BeamsAndBows "socially clumsy particle accelerator fanatic" is the best so far!
David Cantrell 🏏@rupertcutler @BeamsAndBows IRTA "socially clumsy particle accelerator fanfic" and am now wondering exactly what the Tevatron would put where in CERN after several awkward dates.
Rik Lonsdale@BeamsAndBows Love it. Is the state of Sirius B due to absorption by Sirius A greater gravitational field?
@rik_lonsdale Sirius B was initially more massive than Sirius A, and therefore had a shorter lifetime. It wasn’t massive enough to go supernova, though, hence why a white dwarf remains (as opposed to a neutron star or black hole). I’m not sure about mass exchange between the two stars.
@BeamsAndBows Thank you very much for this response. I know the original post is a little dated, but your graphic threw the question into my head. I believe they are a binary system, are they not?
@rik_lonsdale they are 🎀
Don Stewart@BeamsAndBows hurry up Betelgeuse.
(((Klefstadmyr)))@donsbot @BeamsAndBows No, please don't. I like Betelgeuse.
M V Melcer@BeamsAndBows Love it. It should be animated with Betelgeuse blinking in alarm! 😂
KT controls miniature worldsCHARGE YOUR BETELGEUSE
llewelly@BeamsAndBows
that faker Betelguese!!!
*shakes tiny fist at Betelguese*
(Edit: I've decided to add a link to the poem I wrote about Betelguese : https://sauropods.win/@llewelly/109989950730040695
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llewelly (@[email protected])
here's me hoping without hope Betelguese will someday explode in a supernova so bright it lights up all of the day and all of the night the brightest we've ever seen brighter than all of our dreams even though I know that time so brief back in 2019 that sudden dimming it was only just circumstellar dust making a mockery of all of our dreams #poetry #Betelguese #supernova #dust
Grant Canterbury@llewelly @BeamsAndBows I know! Would miss Betelgeuse, but conversely would be fairly awesome to see a supernova. That battery indicator is so low!
I also wrote a poem in 2020 when B started acting up:
http://canterburia.blogspot.com/2020/02/orion.html
I also wrote a poem in 2020 when B started acting up:
http://canterburia.blogspot.com/2020/02/orion.html
Yoshii_974@BeamsAndBows really cool piece of art ! 👏🎉
msgbi Markus Sagebiel
MrShoggoth@BeamsAndBows - Welp, it just earned you another!
Say. You should do one showing how many fun sized Snickers bars it would take to match each of our system’s planets’ mass. #AstronomicNoms
Say. You should do one showing how many fun sized Snickers bars it would take to match each of our system’s planets’ mass. #AstronomicNoms
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royal@BeamsAndBows What happens to Sirius B now?
@royal It’s a white dwarf. No more fusion is occurring- basically, it’s a dead star. The only shining it’s doing now is afterglow from heat and light it generated when it was still fusing elements.
@royal It will gradually dim over quadrillions of years until it becomes a black dwarf. What happens next depends on whether protons are permanently stable or not- it is presumed they last at least 10^36 years. I’ve looked into whether or not it could pull enough mass off Sirius A to cause a type 1A supernova- seems the stars are too far apart for that.
MrsZee@BeamsAndBows that's a lovely graphic!
Northbaybanter@BeamsAndBows -
Can you tell me how long the star power of Kanye West will last?
Many people hoping not long.
Can you tell me how long the star power of Kanye West will last?
Many people hoping not long.
Michael Porter@BeamsAndBows Sirius B just needs a little more material dumped on it and it will light up like a hot lithium battery 💥
Brian Vastag@BeamsAndBows Are these like an iPhone's indicator where the first 50% lasts forever and the second 50% is gone in a few minutes? 😭😂
Margie 🧟🍝😱✨☄️🪐👽@BeamsAndBows Please forgive my arrogant presumption. I brightened and sharpened your image because it's so elegant and awesome.
David Bruchmann
Marshall Eubanks@BeamsAndBows Very clever
Thomas 🚀 SFF180@BeamsAndBows Oh no, Sirius B! Does it want to borrow my power brick?
JP Stringham 🇨🇦@BeamsAndBows I just took an Astronomy midterm today so this one hit at just the right time for me 😅
Poor Sirius B. White dwarfs basically the stellar equivalent of sticking wires in a lemon for power
Ianhopkinson@BeamsAndBows my son and I were looking at this -it was a lovely piece to stimulate discussion and he correctly suggested where the sun should be!
Sid Greenfield@BeamsAndBows ok this is awesome
@BeamsAndBows OK, which charger is for the Sun? Is it this one? Or this one? Or ... what is THIS one for?
Francesco Buscemi@BeamsAndBows the battery indicator of our Sun makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable...
@quantumquia It has a few billion years left on it, no worries 🎀
Dragon-sided D@BeamsAndBows When my phone finally runs out of battery, I will be grateful it didn't undergo core collapse and destroy the local metro area.
Nicklas Johnson 🏳️🌈@BeamsAndBows
Poor Sirius B.
Swell@BeamsAndBows Gets you a follower here!
Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔So, basically, Sirius B and Betelgeuse need to be replaced
SnoBahr@BeamsAndBows Well, I just saw it for the first time, and BAM! Another follower!
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Kater_S@BeamsAndBows @tanteju5 Oh. Sun already down to 50%? We should be much more reluctant with photovoltaics then…! 🤣
MaxTheFox@kater_s @BeamsAndBows @tanteju5 Now I'm imagining conservatives using that as a "counterargument" against green energy lmfao
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@BeamsAndBows Love that! Would have made college physics better in several ways!
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.