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In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished—astronomers still can't find them (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The third option, radiation damage to the plates, sounds the most plausible to me.

It would pre-expose the plate in the same manner as a double exposure in a roll of film so the "stars" would have already been on the plate before use.

We could point the JWST at it just to be sure though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

the ones that went "missing" look different than the rest of the stars too. Too bright and chunky in my opinion