On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky. Part of the project was to take multiple images of the same region of sky, to help identify things such as asteroids. At around 8:52 that evening a photographic plate captured the light of three stars clustered together. At a magnitude of 15, they were reasonably bright in the image. At 9:45 pm the same region of sky was captured again, but this time the three stars were nowhere to be seen. In less than an hour they had completely vanished.
Only because of the way it’s written up. Writing an article about instrument failure isn’t as appealing to a large audience. Even though there are a lot of people who do find that kind of stuff very interesting.
Maybe the instruments don’t want us to see those stars.
I can guarantee they don’t want that. They don’t want anything at all.
Maybe that’s what they want you to think.