{"id":6355,"date":"2020-02-19T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:43:14","slug":"betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/betelgeuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/betel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6356\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/betel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/betel.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/betel-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Using the European Space Organisation\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have noticed the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star (over 20 times bigger than the Sun) in the constellation Orion.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Betelgeuse was born as a super massive star millions of years ago and has been \u201cdramatically\u201d and \u201cmysteriously\u201d dimming for the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 According to a report among the brightest night time stars, Betelgeuse ranks 10th, but by the last week of December 2019, its<br \/>\nbrightness had dimmed so low, that the star was ranked as the 21st brightest, \u201ca remarkable decline \u2014 and a historic low.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The report suggests that while Betelgeuse\u2019s behaviour is out of the ordinary, it doesn\u2019t mean that an eruption is imminent since astronomers predict the star to blast sometime (supernova explosion, which is the largest explosion to take place in space) in the next 100,000 years or so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? \u2022 Using the European Space Organisation\u2019s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42,69],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-science-and-technology","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}