The Stars Tonight

[Muggler]

So a few minutes earlier, I stood outside and made sure my friend who lives down the street got home alright. It is night time here atm. So I looked up at the stars, and it caught me quite strange. There wasn't a few, but there wasn't a lot. I saw a vertical line of three stars, and many stars around it. Strangely, all of the stars were 'blinking'. When the star 'blinked', it looked green at the blink. Can anyone explain this?

[AmazeO XD]

Meteor shower, look at Switch's thread. Edit: Or a fuckin helicopter of sorts.

[slash112]

Meteor shower, look at Switch's thread. Edit: Or a fuckin helicopter of sorts. I think he would have realised that it was a meteor shower. He never said anything about shooting stars. I don't actually have a clue why the sky would look that drastically different. You MIGHT have gotten better answers from the science/maths section.

[Forsaken]

Vertical line of three blinking stars? Are you SURE you weren't looking at a telecom tower?

[nina]

It's called "twinkling" not blinking. Stars twinkle. Ever heard the song "twinkle twinkle little star?" Yeah. Look it up. The three stars in a line are most likely the three bright stars that make up Orion's Belt. They are always the easiest for me to spot in the night sky. You should look up at the sky more often. Seriously. Get out more.

[Universal Mind]

It's an illusion caused by stuff in the atmosphere. The atmosphere can make stars look greenish and like they are twinkling. It happens mostly near the horizon because the closer to the horizon you are looking, the more atmosphere you are looking through.

[Muggler]

It's called "twinkling" not blinking. Stars twinkle. Ever heard the song "twinkle twinkle little star?" Yeah. Look it up. The three stars in a line are most likely the three bright stars that make up Orion's Belt. They are always the easiest for me to spot in the night sky. You should look up at the sky more often. Seriously. Get out more. I'm sorry, did I offend you?Sorry I'm not an astronomer. And if you really think I should get out more, then that is a problem. It sounds like you spend all your days sitting on the ground looking up at the sky. You know, not everyones main focus in life is to sit on the ground and be a caveman. Everyone has different interests, if your interests are sitting outside and looking at the stars, thats great for you. But you don't have to bark at someone just because they ask a simple question, that doesn't regard their interests.