These were all in the same stellar neighborhood, only a handful of light-years from each other. This binary system was also about 15 light-years closer to Earth than the star that had previously disappeared in 1993.Īfter carefully reviewing millions of Hubble images, two more stars were identified which had 'gone out', in the years 19.
Instead, both stars faded individually over a period of minutes, separated by a span of about 8 hours. If a cloud of interstellar dust was the culprit again, they would have both seemed to disappear simultaneously, or very close to it. The two stars in question were part of a binary system, orbiting each other at a fairly close distance.
Due to the circumstances of this event, this was much more concerning. At the time, we thought the most likely explanation was that a cloud of interstellar dust had drifted between Earth and the star, occluding it from view. This star was already too faint to see with the naked eye, and ground-based telescopes had trouble picking it out from among the surrounding stars, so the event wasn't widely known to the public. It didn't go supernova, or die naturally, it simply went dark, over the span of a few minutes. In 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope saw a star disappear. Fuck, I wish those were the case, as the truth is much, much worse. No, the Earth isn't flat, and aliens don't control the government. I work for NASA as an astronomer, and there are certain things we keep hidden from the public.
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