Is Betelgeuse Going Supernova In 2024. We need to talk about betelgeuse. The red supergiant star betelgeuse is smaller and much closer to earth than previously believed, according to astronomers from the australian national university, who have given a new data for when it will explode.
Many astronomers agree that that’s likely to happen within the next hundred thousand years. Was the dimming a signal that the explosion was imminent?