anybody know what this is? i just went outside and saw something that looked like a star but it was blinking different colors. it wasnt an airplane bc it wasnt moving.
different color blinkng star
- Thread starter allaboutfish
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Bright stars often twinkle and change color (particularly when closer to the horizon) due to our atmosphere.
You can download the free planetary software Stellarium and then plug in your location/time and it'll show you what you saw.
You can download the free planetary software Stellarium and then plug in your location/time and it'll show you what you saw.
Weather balloon. Or swamp gas. It always seems to come down to one of those.
Could still be an airplane. If it was moving in line with you then it could appear to not be moving.
Could still be an airplane. If it was moving in line with you then it could appear to not be moving.
livebearerfreak
you are hypnotized! LOL
blinking stars are caused by the sun ( which most stars are, is suns from other galaxys ) dieng out.. our sun is most likely almost the youngest star in our galaxy/universe.. at only 6 billion years old.. so our sun has another 4 to 6 billion years left, if that before it goes to super nova.. ( think thats the correct term? ) but yeah, i see blinking stars all the time. even seen blue stars ( which means that they are about to go out.. which in tune causes a black hole, depending on the size of the sun ) haha sorry to get technical lol.. and if i am wrong on anythng, please correct me. still learning...
but...it was ALL wrong. All of it.
Yes, and no.
Some stars do send off pulses of light and radiation as they die out, but we rarely ever see these stars. So rarely that we couldn't even confirm that they actually did this until relatively recently when scientists finally found one that was in the process.
When you look up in the sky and see a twinkling/blinking star, it's a result of the light coming through the earth's atmosphere, as explained above.
Seeing color in stars, with the naked eye, is again a trick of the light from things here on Earth. While it is true that the color of stars does vary based on their size, temperature, relative distance from the Earth, etc., these color changes are nearly impossible to detect without artificial assistance from telescopes or cameras, due to how the human eye is constructed.
And our sun is fairly middle of the road as far as age goes. It is certainly not the youngest, as there are stellar nurseries churning out brand new stars as we speak.
Ptrick125
Learning a lot everyday