APOD: 2020 May 11 - Behind Betelgeuse

Good Monday morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thank you for this APOD regarding Betelgeuse and what is behind it... In actuality, Betelgeuse was a component star in the Orion Cluster, but is sort of a maverick star... I did a short research on this humongous star and came up with an excellent adjunct to your APOD..., which I reference here... I hope that you and your followers enjoy the additional information...
https://youtu.be/a01Du2cJKcY






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Belated thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Monday, May 11, 2020 entitled "Behind Betelgeuse."
I am not surprised my friend Bill that you posted a picture of the title character from the 1998 movie directed by Tim Burton "Beetlejuice" in response to our friend Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen's subtle hint: :-)
Image: Behind Betelgeuse - Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

Background from APOD "Explanation: What's behind Betelgeuse? One of the brighter and more unusual stars in the sky, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse can be found in the direction of famous constellation Orion. Betelgeuse, however, is actually well in front of many of the constellation's other bright stars, and also in front of the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Numerically, light takes about 700 years to reach us from Betelgeuse, but about 1,300 years to reach us from the Orion Nebula and its surrounding dust and gas. All but the largest telescopes see Betelgeuse as only a point of light, but a point so bright that the inherent blurriness created by the telescope and Earth's atmosphere make it seem extended. In the featured long-exposure image, thousands of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy can be seen in the background behind Betelgeuse, as well as dark dust from the Orion Molecular Cloud, and some red-glowing emission from hydrogen gas on the outskirts of the more distant Lambda Orionis Ring. Betelgeuse has recovered from appearing unusually dim over the past six months, but is still expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime in the next (about) 100,000 years."

Thank you my friend Sgt (Join to see) for mentioning me

Betelgeuse · King Creosote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQXR0iZAOIw

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That is the first star whose name I learned. (I don't count "North Star," because it's really Polaris.)