Matt Kirshen

Aziz from Saudi Arabia says, I wonder if it's possible for a star to have a starquake so strong caused by, for example, nuclear fission or fusion happening or abnormally fast or caused by any other reason to lose mass.

I thought I'd ask that one because we're already talking about fusion.

Quentin from Switzerland says, and I don't know what Quentin's referring to, so hopefully one of you two can fill me in, says, do you need more data to exactly figure out what happened with Betelgeuse?

Is it pronounced Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse?

Betelgeuse, yes.

It is pronounced Betelgeuse, like the film, but spelled differently.

It seems pretty unlikely that we will witness a similar event in the near future.

So what is it?

What did happen?

Okay, I'm sorry.

Yeah, but these guys are like, it's exciting.

This is more data.

It's more data.

Okay.

So we just- It's just experimental error.

They are, yeah.

So Kevin the Sommelier asks, does astroseismology coincide with the data we can get from the James Webb Space Telescope?

Are we able to see those quakes in infrared?

Ooh, I like that.

Yeah, and also then gives a wine recommendation.