Did I just see a star "die"
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I'm no Brian Cox, I can't play the Keyboard for a start however I am fairly into my astronomy. I'm the first to admit that I don't know a great deal about the subject, compared to my friends and people I know, I know a lot more than them so I guess I am better than average on the subject.
Anyway, last night I was laid in bed, next to my window and was looking up at the stars. There were these two stars in quite close proximity to look at, I couldn't tell you what constellation I was looking at as I was laying in bed so my view was restricted. However, after looking at this star for less than a minute, it gradually got bigger then a bright flash from it, split second sort of speed, then the star was gone. Would this had been the star dying? A supernova perhaps? Whatever it was, looked pretty cool. I can rule out tiredness so it wasn't my eyes playing tricks, and the star wasn't moving, prior to what happened just looked like any normal distant star.
Anyway, last night I was laid in bed, next to my window and was looking up at the stars. There were these two stars in quite close proximity to look at, I couldn't tell you what constellation I was looking at as I was laying in bed so my view was restricted. However, after looking at this star for less than a minute, it gradually got bigger then a bright flash from it, split second sort of speed, then the star was gone. Would this had been the star dying? A supernova perhaps? Whatever it was, looked pretty cool. I can rule out tiredness so it wasn't my eyes playing tricks, and the star wasn't moving, prior to what happened just looked like any normal distant star.
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