Hello,
i don't know much about astronomy or the stars but i need to ask a question, hoping that someone can give me an answer. I live in Eastern Canada and was outside my home at around 11:30 p.m. looking up into the eastern night sky. I was staring at these two stars and all of a sudden one of the stars went very bright and then disappeared. It was like someone turning a flashlight on and off. Both the stars were approx. the same size and same brightness. I do not know what i saw? All i know is that it was bright enough for me to notice it and then it disappeared and never did come back. It looked like a star, it looked exactly like the star that was very close to it. Now......if it was a star?...should i have been able to see it explode? If anybody could give me some answers..I'm just very curious about what i saw. If it wasn't a star?..then what could it have been?