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Betelgeuse: why star is behaving oddly and what would happen if it exploded

Dimming and then brightening has led to speculation about whether its demise in the form of an explosion is imminent

Albert Zijlstra, professor of astrophysics at the University of Manchester explains how dimming of star in recent years suggests it might go supernova.

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