Space Science

How To Respond To The Real-Life Star Wars Moment

We’ve all seen the movies and the posters of the iconic view from Tatooine as Luke looks out at two suns. When it happens to us, how will you react?

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When Luke Skywalker walked out of his home on the fictional planet of Tatooine, did he marvel at the two suns on the horizon as they set? He likely stared into space, imagining a future yet to unfold. For him and the Star Wars Universe, two suns was not an unusual sight to behold.

Tomorrow, if you were to walk outside and see two suns, you would react differently. We have grown up with certain realities. The sun will rise tomorrow and set tomorrow night. But what if that reality were to have changed? Enter Betelgeuse.

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Betelgeuse

It’s one of the brightest stars in the sky. Oddly, this massive giant is getting brighter. The growing intensity of the Betelgeuse star is making the scientific community take notice as it may explode, going supernova.