Betelgeuse is like an imbalanced washing machine

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An example of simile in public science discourse:

"The star's interior convection cells, …may be sloshing around like an imbalanced washing machine tub, …the surface is still bouncing like a plate of gelatin dessert [jelly]…"

NASA Website

Article ('Hubble Sees Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top') on NASA Website accessed 8th December 2022. (Read: Was the stellar burp really a sneeze? Pulling back the veil on an astronomical metaphor.)

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.