Between the dead birds, the rising sea levels, mysterious falling goo, and Chloe Sevigny's dalliance with Pauly D, signs of the apocalypse seem to be popping up every week this year. Here's the latest omen: according to Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, we may be seeing a second sun in the sky...just in time for 2012!
Betelgeuse, one of the night sky's brightest stars, is losing mass, indicating it is collapsing; Carter believes it could run out of fuel and go super-nova next year, which for a couple of weeks could make our sky look like Tatooine's. What next, Jawas at the Brooklyn Flea?