When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...

But it will actually be painful to look at because, unlike the full moon that is this gorgeous disk in the sky, Betelgeuse is ...

which provides valuable information about the processes occurring in dying stars. WOH G64, also known as the "stellar Behemoth," is a red supergiant almost 2,000 times larger than the Sun.

This expanded star is known as a red giant, which appears as an orange color ... “Stars are just living and dying every day,” she says.