Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion. It radiates heat at the rate of 2.70 × 10^30 W and has a surface temperature of 3000 K. Assuming that it is a perfect emitter, what is the radius of Betelgeuse? The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is 5.670 × 10^-8 W/m2 • K4.

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Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion. It radiates heat at the rate of 2.70 × 10^30 W and has a surface temperature of 3000 K. Assuming that it is a perfect emitter, what is the radius of Betelgeuse? The Stefan-Boltzmann constant is 5.670 × 10^-8 W/m2 • K4.

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