Odd thing.

[Havik]

I was looking up at the stars this evening, and i noticed one star go really bright then turn red and dimmed out to nothing. it all happened within 5 seconds.

it was just under the big dipper's cup.

Supernova?

[Arsanthania]

possibly.

[ChillFactor]

Most likely a super nova from millions of years ago. Congrtas, you just saw something that happened before civilization, in space.

Either that or you saw a spaceship warp out of earth's orbit 

[Havik]

I was reading up on the topic and supernova's last for weeks.

[Mars]

With billions upon billions of stars it would be un likely for a human in his or her lifetime to not see one,   however the universe is full of strange things that we dont yet know anything about,  for example since you have been reading up on novas i have been re reading shrodenger's cat and since many things are not observed they can be in a dual state so who knows what we see sometimes.     personally i have seen a real big foot in se arkansas swamps,  seen many ufo's,  and seen some wild wild things out in the deserts of iraq at nite,  since all this interest ive had to go set my telescope back up i have a nice sunspot 1000x  7.5 inch reflector and some cool barlows that come with it.   but other than the moon mars venus and saturn's rings mostly local stuff,  you get a vastness of how big things really are. 

if you have coord for the object let me know ill look for it and take a picture since mine has a stupid 110 film attachment

prehaps it was tribes starbase that blew up at the hands of the OutCast and we should get that on film lol. 

well hell i had to put a dig in there somewhere right. lol..

[Harpor]

indeed to think that everything we see in the night sky is only just the milky way galaxy.
and to think of how many there are. heh to assume that were the only species is foolharty.

to think of it like men in black terms the galaxy could be as small as a marble then. heh were the size of atoms.
and visa versa were as huge as worlds to atoms and were atoms to the world. so really whats big and small ?