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Has anyone else seen a star disappear?

A few months ago I saw a star just fade and disappear right in front of me, is this something rare?

Update:

This was no moving object, I have photographic memory and that star has stayed in that approximate position for about a month(of course it moved because of rotation and revolution), but when I saw it last it was in one spot for about 4 hours into the night and then just slowly faded into darkness.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes. I have actually seen 3 stars fade and disappear, and this stars where like my best friends. They were together Parallel. Just one day i saw them and it happened. Not sure what the hell causes it. Never really bothered asking, but now you have asked.

  • 8 years ago

    It happens. Did you see it again? Who knows. Stars die every day, though. It just takes a ;long time for the final light to reach us. A star could be dead and we would still see its light for days!

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  • 8 years ago

    Imagine this, I'm sure you already know light travels. It takes a very, very long time for the light of that star to reach earth so we can see it. So when that star dissapears, vanishes, dies, stops putting out light or whatever you want to call it. It also takes a long time reach us so we can notice its gone. We are seeing stars literally travel through time. The star you seen dissapear, really has been gone for hundreds, maybe thousands of years already. But it must take the light time to travel for us to see and notice. When we look through telescopes, we are looking through time at stars hundreds of thousands of light years away. Our sight travels at about the speed of light. The nearest star is about 25 trillion miles away and light travels 186, 000 miles per second. All though that is extremely fast and literally bends time, you can see that takes a lonnnnnnggggg time to travel.

  • 8 years ago

    Yup if it was a star maybe it just died. They will "seem" to vanish like that.

    The light from the star takes much longer to reach our eyes so maybe you got to see some history.

    The last few rays of an old star.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    I have been noticing these things too. I saw a white light drifting north. It strobed away and died like a candle light being blown out.

  • 8 years ago

    Yeah almost everyday

  • 8 years ago

    U.F.O Or A Commet

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