Comment on In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished—astronomers still can't find them

1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• sethboy66@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The possible reasons are all pretty bland; gravitational lensing, nebular refracting, or they weren't stars at all but rather asteroids (with a vector of motion in-line to that of the LoS of the observation).

  It's not like these stars had ever been catalogued before the first plate, so its not like these objects were long-standing unchanging phenomena that suddenly disappeared.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you.

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shut up Wesley

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