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Professor Mike Merrifield pours some cold water on Betelgeuse - but also explains what will happen when it DOES explode. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ More videos with Mike Merrifield: http://bit.ly/Merrifield_Playlist Mike is an astronomer at the University of Nottingham - he tweets here: https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri Neutrinos from Beta Processes in a Presupernova: Probing the Isotopic Evolution of a Massive Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa95c4/pdf With thanks to Ed Guinan Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Email list: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9