{"id":16376,"date":"2023-10-27T01:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16376"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:20:39","slug":"betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/betelgeuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Betelgeuse star"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Betelgeuse star<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0red supergiant star with a distinctive orange-red hue.<\/li>\n<li>It is roughly 10 million years old and is much younger than the Sun.<\/li>\n<li>It is around\u00a0700 light-years away from the Earth.<\/li>\n<li>It is located in the\u00a0Orion constellation.<\/li>\n<li>It is particularly easy to spot because of its brightness; it is often the tenth-brightest star in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>It is also one of the largest stars visible to the unaided eye.<\/li>\n<li>While it is large and bright, Betelgeuse isn&#8217;t actually that hot, with a surface temperature of about 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit (over 3,300 degrees Celsius).<\/li>\n<li>Betelgeuse has been classified as a\u00a0&#8220;semiregular variable star,&#8221; which is a type of variable star that periodically waxes and wanes in brightness and occasionally undergoes irregular light changes.<\/li>\n<li>Betelgeuse, typically, has a 400-day cycle as well as a longer cycle that stretches about 5 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a constellation?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a recognizable and traditionally established group of stars in the night sky that appears to form a pattern or shape when observed from Earth. People have been identifying and naming constellations for thousands of years, and these patterns have played a significant role in various cultures, navigation, and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/science\/scientists-resolve-the-mystery-behind-sudden-dimming-of-supergiant-betelgeuse-star-651550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists resolve the mystery behind sudden dimming of supergiant Betelgeuse star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betelgeuse star  is a red supergiant star with a distinctive orange-red hue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}