Betelgeuse went dark, but didn't go supernova What happened?

Betelgeuse Space Wiki betelgeuse Life on Earth will be unharmed But that doesn't mean it will go unnoticed Goldberg and Bauer found that when Betelgeuse explodes, it will betelgeuse Betelgeuse is a red supergiant nearing the end of its lifetime in a supernova explosion, potentially within the next 1,000 years

betelgeuse Betelgeuse is one of the largest known stars and is probably at least the size of the orbits of Mars or Jupiter around the sun That's a diameter about 700