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“BERKELEY — The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Long-term monitoring by UC Berkeley's Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) on the top of Mt. Wilson in Southern California shows that Betelgeuse (bet' el juz), which is so big that in our solar system it would reach to the orbit of Jupiter, has shrunk in diameter by more than 15 percent since 1993. [...] ‘To see this change is very striking,’ said Charles Townes, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of physics who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the laser and the maser, a microwave laser. ‘We will be watching it carefully over the next few years to see if it will keep contracting or will go back up in size.’”
— By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 09 June 2009
UC Berkeley physicist [Nobel Laureate] Charles
Townes cleans one of the large mirrors of the
Infrared Spatial Interferometer. (Cristina Ryan 2008)
“Life is a temporal reprieve from the
Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
— TheBigHenry
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