Betelgeuse is still fading and we all have dreams of supernovae dancing through our heads. As we imagine what could be, we look at the cause of gamma ray bursts. We also look at how some think one star - nu Indi - is enough to get a timestamp on the collision of the Milky Way with the Gaia-Enceladus dwarf galaxy. We end things with a brief look at new climate change research none of us probably want to read, but we all need to understand.