Why does the night sky and stars look so weird?
I enjoy looking at the stars and I’ve looked through online and some people have said that they’ve seen the stars have weird grid patters, be in different spots, have new constellations that weren’t there before. They also have seemed to be brighter in different colors and what do you think would be the cause of this?
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answers:
Clive say: They're obviously taking something illegal or making it all up. Or just don't understand.
It's all very simple. What you can see depends on the weather, where in the world you are and how dark it is there. And stars appear to move round because the Earth is spinning - keep looking over the course of a night and you'll see them all move around Polaris. Not visibly, but certainly if I can see the Moon out of my window at night and relate it to, say, the branches of a tree, stay sitting still and look again after 10 minutes, I can see it's moved relative to the tree. If there were no Sun and I could watch for 24 hours, I'd see the stars go all the way round the sky once.
And it changes with the seasons, as we orbit the Sun and end up facing a different part of the sky at night.
Your numerous previous questions indicate an unhealthy obsession with "weirdness". Forget it, just enjoy what you see and what's really there. And stop asking silly questions - people online talk all kinds of rubbish.
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Jeffrey K say: The cause is people's imaginations.
Do any astronomers or astronomy websites say that?
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Tom S say: Peyote?
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Ronald 7 say: tar aps are illustrated with exacerbated sizes and colours representing their properties
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poldi2 say: "some people have said" - yet not one is a scientist or other professional observer.
Dust, smoke, pollution, all kinds of things in our atmosphere can alter the appearance of the stars.
"new constellations that weren't there before" - if that were true, it would be all over the news everywhere, not just a comment made by unknown people.
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nineteenthly say: That doesn't correspond to my view of the sky this morning. It just looked the same as always for the time, date and location.
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cosmo say: Lay off the LSD.
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Joan H say: You need to get away from city lights on a nice clear night and see what the sky looks like with just your eyes.
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Andy C say: Your location keeps changing...
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