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

3 years ago by Lee Duna to c/space

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On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky. Part of the project was to take multiple images of the same region of sky, to help identify things such as asteroids. At around 8:52 that evening a photographic plate captured the light of three stars clustered together. At a magnitude of 15, they were reasonably bright in the image. At 9:45 pm the same region of sky was captured again, but this time the three stars were nowhere to be seen. In less than an hour they had completely vanished.
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billy_bollocks 12 points 3 years ago

Didn’t realize they had pixelated photos in 1952…

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Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 19 points 3 years ago

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FlyingSquid 10 points 3 years ago

The public library in my town when I was a kid in the 80s replaced their card catalog with a touchscreen computer system. It barely worked, sometimes you had to press below where you were supposed to press, but the idea was cool.

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Dangdoggo 5 points 3 years ago

That was a super interesting little dive thank you.

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