B-Day : Weeks or Months

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=405304

One must always take posts like this on the internet with a grain of salt however as it serves my own instincts I'll put it up here.

The poster on the following link:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=405304

Is suggesting that recent observations from an observatory on Hawaii are implying that Betelgeuse will blow in a matter of weeks or months rather than years. Exciting stuff! An excerpt follows:

I was talking to my son last week (he works on Mauna Kea), and he mentioned some new observations (that will no doubt get published eventually) of "Beetlejuice"; it's no longer round. This is a huge star, and when it goes, it will be at least as bright as that 1054 supernova...except that this one is 520 light years away, not 6,300

.....and the best part......

The buzz is that this is weeks/months away, not the "any time in the next thousand years" that's in all the books.

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