Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Professor Mike Merrifield pours some cold water on Betelgeuse - but also explains what will happen when it DOES explode.
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Neutrinos from Beta Processes in a Presupernova: Probing the Isotopic Evolution of a Massive Star: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa95c4/pdf

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