I noticed a couple of stars in the sky were flashing. What could they be?They

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#1 slamminjammin69
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They cant be lights from an airplane. The stars are still in the sky. So they either gotta be just stars flashing, satelittles which is a rare thing to try to spot in the night starry sky, or those gosh darn UFOs. Damn aliens LOL

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UFOs trollin at night

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It's the CIA's intelligence satellites watching you touch yourself.
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you probably saw the north star/or the big dipper, and little dipper these always shine more ,and stars do twinkle,

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Looks like a job for....

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Fear not, they're just weather balloons....

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They cant be lights from an airplane. The stars are still in the sky. So they either gotta be just stars flashing, satelittles which is a rare thing to try to spot in the night starry sky, or those gosh darn UFOs. Damn aliens LOL

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Sounds like stars. Atmospheric effects can distort starlight and make it seem like the actual stars have changing light.

Sounds like an optical illusion caused by the starlight having to travel through the Earth's atmosphere before you see it. Such optical effects are EXTREMELY important...the only reason why the daylight sky is blue is because it has to travel through the atmosphere. Cut out the visable light and do imaging using wavelengths that are less-scattered by the atmosphere (such as infrared) and the sky pretty much turns black even on a clear day at noon.

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Assuming they are stationary the ones that blink funny are often planets or it could be because of atmospheric conditions.
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_R34LiTY_

OMG I forgot about that guy... :lol:

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Holes in the ceiling. Call the land lord.
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#10 slamminjammin69
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So it's either of these three things

planets which make sense if you can see better with binoculars

satellites which is kind of rare to see at night

those gosh darn aliens in their ufos are at it again

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#11 worlock77
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So it's either of these three things

planets which make sense if you can see better with binoculars

satellites which is kind of rare to see at night

those gosh darn aliens in their ufos are at it again

slamminjammin69

Or they're stars.

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Reading the headline, all I could think about was night time double rainbows

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[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="slamminjammin69"]

They cant be lights from an airplane. The stars are still in the sky. So they either gotta be just stars flashing, satelittles which is a rare thing to try to spot in the night starry sky, or those gosh darn UFOs. Damn aliens LOL

Sounds like stars. Atmospheric effects can distort starlight and make it seem like the actual stars have changing light.

Sounds like an optical illusion caused by the starlight having to travel through the Earth's atmosphere before you see it. Such optical effects are EXTREMELY important...the only reason why the daylight sky is blue is because it has to travel through the atmosphere. Cut out the visable light and do imaging using wavelengths that are less-scattered by the atmosphere (such as infrared) and the sky pretty much turns black even on a clear day at noon.

So in other words, it's swamp gas. Suuuuure, we believe you MrGeezer...or should I say SPECIAL AGENT Geezer.
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How could you not have seen anything like that before? Not sure what they are though :P, high flying though, probably satelites

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Assuming they are stationary the ones that blink funny are often planets or it could be because of atmospheric conditions. quadraleap

Planets usually don't appear to twinkle because they are close enough that our eyes see them as actual forms.

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[QUOTE="slamminjammin69"]

So it's either of these three things

planets which make sense if you can see better with binoculars

satellites which is kind of rare to see at night

those gosh darn aliens in their ufos are at it again

Planets don't twinkle/flash.
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My best guess is a satellite. although the few times I saw them they moved (just very very slowly).

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#19 Alacoque72
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Stars twinkle, planets don't

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#20 Cataclism
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You never noticed that before? And wow! I see a lot of people who apparently didn't either. :shock:

ALL starts do that. If it doesn't twinkle, well it's probably a planet as those don't twinkle. Seriously just look outside and look into a few of them at a time. You will see they twinkle.

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#21 XileLord
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Aren't some stars supposed to twinkle? I thought that's what the song "twinkle twinkle little star" was based off of

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Satellites arent rare to see in the sky at all. They just look like fast moving stars. You can see a couple every night no problem
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#23 AFBrat77
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Aren't some stars supposed to twinkle? I thought that's what the song "twinkle twinkle little star" was based off of

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Stars (other than our sun of course) do appear to twinkle because they are points of light, too far distant.

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Could they be dying stars?

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#25 slamminjammin69
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well that's what I've been thinking if dying stars do give off a flashing twinkle flash in a clear night sky.

Satellites spying on us at night time LOL, darn aliens in their ufos or even just 2 planets lining up for 2012

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#26 harashawn
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Aren't some stars supposed to twinkle? I thought that's what the song "twinkle twinkle little star" was based off of

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All stars twinkle, actually.
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#27 VanHelsingBoA64
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Don't worry dude, because all of the lights in the sky are stars.
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It's the Illuminati choosing you.
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Pulsars.

Sorry to rain on the parade of those who wanted a more interesting answer... :P

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Pulsars.

Sorry to rain on the parade of those who wanted a more interesting answer... :P

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