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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
What?! And ruin a perfectly good constellation. Surely there is a third alternative. Be careful what you wish for too, being too close to a SN could be a bit uncomfortable .... or worse.
I think people miss the Homunculus because you tend to look at the nebula at low power and it's easy to not notice that the star isn't 'stellar' in appearance. I think I knew about the Homunculus for years before I realised I could actually see it.
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Hmm, you're right, i am rather fond of Orion. Damaging it would be a bit of a downer...
But in terms of the danger, and I have not consulted Prof. Wikipedia, so I may well be talking out of my rear here, but at 13 solar masses & 400 odd light years away(or was it parsecs) I thought Betelgeuse exploding is expected to be benign to us.
Does anyone know oh&s implications here?