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Betelgeuse is a star whose luminosity exceeds 1.2 * 105 LSUN, but its measured surface temperature is quite low for a star, about 3500K.What would be its estimated size and where would it fall in the H-R diagram shown in the figure below? What would be the final fate of Betelgeuse? Betelgeuse is a star whose luminosity exceeds 1.2 * 10<sup>5 </sup>L<sub>SUN</sub>, but its measured surface temperature is quite low for a star, about 3500K.What would be its estimated size and where would it fall in the H-R diagram shown in the figure below? What would be the final fate of Betelgeuse?

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