I just read an article in a popular Finnish science magazine on 9 stars that have gone missing since 1950. The stars were originally mapped by Samuel Oschin telescope on 12 April 1950 as part of a larger space mapping project.
Since 2017 comparison studies have been made as part of VASCO program and scientists identified over a 100 stars that cannot be seen anymore. Most of these could be explained by some natural phenomena, but for missing 9 stars explanation has not been found. Most interestingly, all these stars are located in an extremely narrow part of the sky.
What’s quite unusual is that the magazine and the scientists involved in the project seem to take seriously the possibility that this disappearance is due to an advanced civilization (hypothesis include dyson spheres and very large space vessels in the solar system in 1950).
Some background can be found below for those interested:
https://www.space.com/amp/hunt-for-universe-missing-stars-space-mysteries
Submitted January 04, 2022 at 11:53AM by Qwerty9984 https://ift.tt/3FUdYvX
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