Link to the story:
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-group-stars-vanishedastronomers.html
From the article: A third idea is that they weren't objects at all. Palomar Observatory isn't too far from the New Mexico deserts where nuclear weapons testing occurred. Radioactive dust from the tests could have contaminated the photographic plates, creating bright spots on some images and not others. Given similar vanishings seen on other photographic plates of the 1950s, this seems quite possible.
The Trisolarans made their dark domain.
Or somebody trapped MorningLightMountain
I immediately thought of those books too
Starkiller base needed fuel.
The cleaning service came in and wiped the crud off the lens at 9:15
So who's going to post this same article tomorrow?
Sorry. I was hungry.
People are joking because if they consider the real reasons, it's scary.
The possible reasons are all pretty bland; gravitational lensing, nebular refracting, or they weren't stars at all but rather asteroids (with a vector of motion in-line to that of the LoS of the observation).
It's not like these stars had ever been catalogued before the first plate, so its not like these objects were long-standing unchanging phenomena that suddenly disappeared. These are hour-long transients of which there have been hundreds recorded.
Thank you.
Shut up Wesley