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Editorialized title: real title is "Betelgeuse Imagined".

But the real lede here is buried: "Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most recognized stars in the night sky, is only half as bright as it used to be only five months ago." This is actually quite shocking to me, I'm very surprised I hadn't heard about it until now.

I'm hoping it went supernova sometime around 1320 CE to 1370 CE.

(It's about 700 lightyears away)