While most of the science world is thrilled over the highest-ever resolution images that are about to be released by the newly-aligned James Webb Space Telescope, one fictional horror story making the rounds might give you pause.
This story is not about any of the secrets that a NASA employee could hold.
"No, the Earth isn't flat, and aliens aren't in charge of the government," a person wrote in the beginning of their story. The truth is much, much worse.
The story begins with the Hubble telescope, which in 1993 saw a star disappear.
The story says that it went dark over a few minutes and didn't go supernova or die naturally. The event wasn't known to the public because the star was too faint to see with the naked eye.
The Hubble spotted a missing system in 2007. Two other stars in the same area went out in 1995 and 2002.
The stars had gone very, very cold, and the familiar elements of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and magnesium were present.
Dyson spheres, an early 20th century speculative technology that would allow all the energy of a star to be trapped inside a shell as a source of energy, was the main theory in this terrifying tale.
Everyone was happy that they might have found proof of extraterrestrial life.
The writer says that everyone at NASA was interested in the mystery. If we hadn't discovered the truth, we might have been better off.
The ending of this story is too good to summarize, and too surprising to guess, so be sure to check it out on R/No Sleep.
There is a nightmare creature that does not actually exist. We hope that's the case.
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