What will Happen when Betelgeuse goes Supernova?! 

For people asking what software this is, it's "Universe Sandbox 2" and there's a link in the description. I've also made a newer video on the subject. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l7lxqUk3xlY.html

When i play this game i realise what a tiny insignificant blip our Human lifespan is. We're like one tick of the clock.

So, being as it's 640 LY away, isn't it more accurate to say "we're looking to see if an event that has already happened has reached us yet"? The neutrino burst is only a few hours ahead of the visible light, so sleep easy and it happens, it happens.

Found this: "Betelgeuse lies some 430 light-years from Earth. (Note: determining distances, especially to red supergiant stars, is a vexing problem in Astronomy. Estimates vary and are often revised, with some as high as 650 light-years.)"

You said the name 3 times! *gasp*

It will hatch a dragon when it goes supernova. This is well known, I am surprised that you did not mention it.

The Supernova will never get that big, it would have turned into a Nebula long time ago (In the simulation) and before the nebula ever expanded to reach Earth, it would have dissipated.

This was really cool. Can you imagine an earth where the night sky is this lit up? For thousands of years there would be an additional light source backing the sun and boosting the night. Our entire ecosystem would change after a time. The differences would be enormous and if we harnessed ways to fully utilize solar by then (which barring some horrible event we surly will) then the additional energy would compound all mans resources for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! Such a wild concept to play with..

Thank you. Subbed. Gonna be an awesome 4th of July, later rather than sooner.

How to pronounce Betelgeuse = Beetle Juice

The 2 degree gamma ray burst will apparently miss Earth by 20 degrees. This is good.

Fortunately, Betelgeuse's 650 light-years away from our home planet Earth.

also i loved how you didn't notice you placed it as a still object

actually it's 690 light years away so lets not worry. perhaps its gone super nova hundreds of years ago but who cares

Also, what you're showing is the nebula that would form after the super nova. If there was a threat of a gamma ray burst, we would know as soon as we witnessed the explosion itself. Because gamma rays travel at the speed of light. The nebula is gas and dust traveling away at much lower speeds.

Oh boy the betelgeuse explosion is far I can life longer and dont worry about it

Makes me sorry that I won't live to see it.

Distance to any star is very difficult to measure, but in this case, the variable and assymetric nature of Betelgeuse makes it even worse. Hence the large uncertainty. The wiki article actually says 643±146 ly. That's how clueless we are. I believe the numbers are a statistical combination of numerous measurements. 427 ly is almost deinitely wrong, but it doesn't really matter a whole lot if it is 500 or 700 light years.

:p going to be a pain for astronomers with all that extra light.

I saw the blast in a dream. A very bright star in heaven. A halo around it, expanding and shrinking and growing wider every time until it collapses. As it collapses finally a flash. In an instant all flesh is charbroiled on the surface of Earth. Trees untouched, homes of wood intact. Such a powerful blast of energy. Our bodies transformed in an instant, just at it was written. Amazing event.

Ahhh supernova,what a nice name for such a DEADLY THING

I would like to see the Trappist 1 system orbit our Sun in an long elliptical orbit coming in from the bottom of our sun. is that type of simulation possible?

Tons of inaccuracies in this "game" of space. When it goes supernova, it will shine brightly for a few days - possibly more brightness than a full moon, and then get dimmer over 3 to 5 months. For about 10 weeks or so, it will be visible (like a bright star) during daylight. The nebula (the part this silly game makes expand over time to look like it's swallowing the earth) does not reach us this way. Betelgeuse's rotation is about 20 degrees off the plane of the solar system's ecliptic, and when it explodes, any gamma radiation (which will come off its poles) will bypass the earth (and probably the solar system in general). But what is simulated in this "game" is not what actually happens.

If Betelgeuse goes supernova, it becomes a flashing neutron star called the Betelgeuse Pulsar.

This is the coolest thing ever. I could play this for two weeks straight, without peeing.

Gum nebula - 2.6 million years old, almost 1000 light years across, and is so dim it only emits light in the infrared.

Betelgeuse is 642.5 light years away so if we see it go supernova we are seeing what happened 642.5 years ago as that is how long it took the light from that event to get here.

The exact distance is up for debate. It's between 450-650 light years away

The Betelgeuse Model on the latest version of space engine looks AWESOME!

beetlejuice blew 100 years ago but we wont see the light for another 2000 years

Gamma ray burst is what we should be concerned about. But since 5 degree ejection is at the poles and we a 20 percent out of alignment w the southern pole of the star we should be ok.

Betelgeuse is a red super giant,which makes it a very large star, its in the top 10 largest stars that we know actually, so yes it is capable of turning into a black hole but it won't have on Universe Sandbox 2

You made the Sun lose Earth? You're fired!

Everyone one young on earth is worrying about an asteroid called Apophis, not many people shall worry, the asteroid is only the size of a stadium, it will destroy at least the size of Germany, but NASA did say that it will miss the keyhole, for when it come back in 2036, (it will not hit 2029, it’s confirmed) Apophis will never have an affect on earth, so don’t worry

The star officially exploded on 12/6/2019,and I was standing out side with my mom and we saw the huge bright light in the sky,and there you have it folk's.

Recent sudden dimming - also sudden gravity wave anamoly from it...

When this happens we will finally be able to find Planet 9 as it will be lit up. Cant wait

Well the Star is 652 light years away, so if we are going to see it, it’s already happened.

I think that the distance varies because its a star of significantly variable brightness and thus is more difficult to estimate the distance.

Yours turned into a neutron star? I launched Betelgeuse at the sun just to see what would happen & after 5 Billion years it turned into a gas giant.

Damn 11,000 years into the future. Will humans even be alive?

Sad thing is since space is pretty much silent there won't be a muffled "kathoom" sound

Something is wrong with that app. A nova nebula from 600 light years away wouldn’t engulf us ... nor would it fill the sky like that.

I protest the animation at 4:00 because after watching some RU-vid videos I have discovered that the earth is actually flat :-)

It's 640 light years away and it's gamma ray bursts are faced 20 degrees away from earth so we're safe

Even if a star were 2 light years away I wouldn’t worry unless it was a hyper giant capable of a gamma burst on nova.

When it explodes, all the dead people will come out thier coffins from the ground and start dancing the Michael Jackson thriller song! Lol

you forgot to set its axis of rotation 20 degrees off from earth...the gamma rays have a specific trajectory....

There will be need for light no more. Our Winters would be filled with light emanating from the super nova. New Earth, New Heavens, our very bright future.

Betelgeuse is the eighth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star that makes up the constellation of Orion. ... This star's diameter is roughly 2000 times that of our sun's and 155,000 times that of Earth's. VY Canis Majoris is a hypergiant star located 3,900 light years from Earth.

I was looking at actual Betelgeuse in Orion in the left corner. Haha.

I’m going to college right now to be an Astrophysicist this is very interesting

My laptop would have an aneurism running this software

Wikipedia and NOVA on PBS said 640 light years.

To answer your title question, who cares since we will all be long since dead and turned to dust, if and when that happens........

Yey, I wont die! Hmm.. Im kinda curious. What if Titan was a moon of Venus?

What if Betelgeuse already went supernova, and what we see actually was it a couple billion light years. Seeing that light would take a long time to bring the image of Betelgeuse,

The effect Betelgeuse would have on Earth would be minimal unless it had a gamma ray burst aimed right at where our planet would be when it hit several centuries after the supernova, and it would have to be over a small region of our orbital path, and at the exact time. It can happen, if the stars rotation is such that the GRB would hit our solar system and at an angle that it crossed Earth's orbit, but is so highly unlikely. And by saying it can happen, it is theorized that one of our extinction events was caused by one several hundred million years ago. Once, over how many hundreds of millions of years? Yeah, highly unlikely. Otherwise, one hell of a light show, visible for some time, then it will dim and we may see some cloud where the star was with telescopes. By the time the particles reached Earth, they would have lost a lot of their energy and cooled to the point where our magnetic field would stop them. May make for some impressive auroras, though.

I want to see it! Hey, at least the Earth may get a fresh supply of gold.

Michael Keaton is gonna be furious.

Awesome video. That program or game as u call it is super interesting

NASA put the distance to Betelgeuse comparable to Wiki's 643 LY, at just under 650 LY.

I’d kill to be alive in a time when an astronomical event happens like this. I doubt it’d get nearly that big but it’ll still be a great light show

Would the supernova light shorten the nights, if not eliminate them?

Better get my solar glasses and sun tan lotion ready. This will be great.

For all we know it has already gone supernova. There is no way of knowing.

only 11 thousand years into the future, well just wake me when it's here.

The music was perfect at the beginning

If I didn't know better, I'd say I traveled 30,000 years into the future...

Can you imagine if God was a joyless, rigid, and a purely analytical creature as well, as for me, I cannot, and wont be surprised when we inevitably go supernova on ourselves with nuclear warfare. The greatest part for all of for our thinkers and scientists is that all that carnage will be made possible with just the push of a button, but I digress..

My I would give anything to see an actual super nova! It must be extremely beautiful besides of what the simulations show. It’s really fitting to me though that these huge bright glorious giants explode in an array of beautiful colors and blasts of power

betelgeuse looks like a bright cheesy popcorn.

What would happen if our solar system passed through a hydrogen cloud or a helium cloud

we would be treated to an awesome light show for a day or two....then we would have a nebula in our local vicinity. But being 600 plus lightyears away we would be in no danger. a star needs to be less than 30 lightyears away to affect us in anyway.

Very good and informative, thanks. I think the music detracts from the quality.

Thats an interesting and terrifying glitch... I hope?

When Betelgeuse goes ultra instinct

if u didnt notice milky way also sorta died it was eeally bright now very blue and dim

100000 years well I suppose I have time to get another coffee

I don't know the fact but i remember seeing a chart when i was young that showed how many Earths and Suns you could fit inside Betelgeuse. I think is was something like a 100 Earths per Sun and 1mil suns per Betelgeuse. idk.

Look what we have done in science in the last 2000 years. Imagine what we will do in the next 20,000 years

Earth becomes Nirn in 30000 years confirmed

Beh-tel-gew-sss

if you don't mind, what's that simulation software? it's Soo cool to play around stars and space subscribed by the way:)

I was just thinking about this today

It's showtime!

Pretty cool simulation to see :D.

When I read Betelgeuse, in my mind I always pronounce it "Bee-teg-you-lea-z" because I don't read it right.

The soundtrack at the beginning is very samiliar to one in Osmos.

It's so far away it would still have an effect on Earth. Wow!?

I hope this happens in my life time. It will be amazing to see.

My guess is, it will fk shit up if it explodes.

If you place Jupiter in Earth's orbit and made Earth one of it's moons, can you get it to survive? How many moons could be terrestrial also?

Wow so we would like close to a nebula!? That's so cool

Okay who the fuck named a star beetle juice?! I mean come on give it a break?

I hope I'm alive to see this it would be EPIC

It might have already gone supernova cause it takes light time to get places so

if Betelgeuse producing a Gamma ray burst (when it goes super nova) that is pointed towards Earth than Earth will be fried.

could you do the same video but replace beatle with the biggest star we know of and see what it does to earth?

as much as i love playing with universe sandbox... its just not a real accurate depiction on solar events taking place in real time/space.