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The stars we see with just our eyes in the night sky are mostly all incredibly huge, bright, short lived stars. Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, having formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It's already on death's door, and could explode at any moment now (speaking on geological time-scales)