{"id":3923552,"date":"2026-01-14T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/siwarhas-wake-gives-it-away-at-betelgeuse\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:01:43","slug":"siwarhas-wake-gives-it-away-at-betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/siwarhas-wake-gives-it-away-at-betelgeuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Siwarha&#8217;s wake gives it away at Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can&#8217;t wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn&#8217;t been one explode this close in recorded human history. It&#8217;s been changing its brightness and showing strange surface behavior, which is why astronomers track its activity closely. Are these changes due to its aging process? Do they mean it&#8217;s about to blow up? Probably not.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-siwarha-betelgeuse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can&#8217;t wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a red supergiant on the verge of becoming a supernova and there hasn&#8217;t been one explode this close in recorded human history. It&#8217;s been changing its brightness and showing strange surface behavior, which is why [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}