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So nutzen Sie Betelgeuse's Great Dimming 3D Explorer

Open the explorer and scrub through the real event day by day.

  1. Open https://freetoolonline.com/space-3d/betelgeuse-dimming.html and wait for the star to appear.
  2. Press Play and watch the dust cloud grow and the star dim.
  3. Scrub the Day slider yourself to jump to any point in the real October 2019-April 2020 timeline.
  4. Watch the live brightness readout and phase label update as you scrub.
  5. Drag to orbit and compare the star's size to the small Sun-and-Jupiter reference markers.
See four Betelgeuse dimming steps: open the explorer, press Play, scrub the Day slider, and read brightness and phase.
Open the explorer, press Play, scrub Day across 2019-2020, read brightness and phase.

Next: the when guide or vs alternatives. Open the Betelgeuse's Great Dimming 3D Explorer.