There is a thing in the sky and is flashing colors and not moving, what is it ?
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Greetings,\n\nIt was probably Sirius the Dog Star.  One of the closer stars to us and when it twinkles it appears red, blue, green, and is really big for a star.\n\nIt was NOT a planet, as planets don't twinkle.  Jupiter is bright, but it's not very high up in the sky at 8:00 pm.  Venus is currently only up in the morning.  Saturn is a dim yellowish star in Gemini.  Mars is a dim orange star between Taurus and the Pleides.\n\nSo to sum up, it was most likely Sirius.\n\nYou can use the link provided for a interactive star chart that is easy to read and use.  Simply plug in your city and state and the time of day/night you want to see and most of the visible stars will show up along with the planets, comets, and a few other deep space objects.\n\n-matt
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The sky is blue to us beause of Rayleigh scattering.  From outer space, you don't have that atmosphere effect, so it's black.
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Good.  It's always fun seeing bright meteors (meteors are the streak you see in the sky;  a meteorite is the term used for such an object that survives it's plunge into the atmosphere and strikes the ground; a meteoroid is the same object still in open space).  Quite likely what you saw was one of the Orionids, especially if it seemed to eminate from the constellation Orion.  Those particular meteors are very fast and can be very bright.  The Orionids were pretty spectacular this year...I saw 5 of them in about 10 minutes during the peak.
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Light is not an object, therefore it can't stop moving.  It travels is all directions.
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Ball lightning?  Was it anything like this:\n\nhttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/131601/ufo_in_xinjiang_of_china/\n\nMe and a friend saw something like this back in February.  My friend was staring directly out the window, thinking about Asian chicks, when it popped out of the clouds right in front of his eyes.  It was a bright ball, had whispy filaments all over it, and when it "popped" it went out with a big double-strobe-flash.  I saw it out of the corner of my eye and when I turned to focus on it, it flashed out and filled the car with a bright, blue light.  It was strong enough to make my friend go "AaaAarGghhH!"\n\nIf you want to get crazy with it, I think this is what our ancient ancestors meant when they said the stars would fall from the Heavens.  Imagine a whole lot of ball lightning raining down on your city.  That'd be some shit to see right there.  Read some of my questions and best answers.
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droplets of water in the air refract light and break it into the visible specturm. thats way you see the different colors.
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Simple, it's just an atmospheric effect, they really don't twinkle. It's kind like seeing a tree in middle of an hot desert, with the hot air rising from the ground, the tree seems to move..
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Hi, I answered this question earlier. I'm going to cut and paste it for you.\n--\nMost sightings happen at night. People see strange lights or shapes in the sky.\nMine happened in broad daylight. Crystal clear blue sky. About noon. No sun in my eyes. An object appeared in the sky directly in front of me. It was traveling parallel to the ground. It wasn't zipping along at lightning fast speed. It was fairly slow. About airplane speed. \nIt wasn't more than a half mile away. Fairly low in the sky.\nI could see every detail. The color. It was a semi-shiny or brushed metallic almost burnt looking. Very hard to explain. All one color. No markings. No lights. I could see the intricate patterns of the body. I wont ever describe them. I'm not planting any seeds. When I hear an identical description then I'll know it was real. You see this was 25 years ago. To this day nobody has matched the description. Not even close. I watched it for a few seconds. I was in amazement. It simply vanished. \n--\nPsst, don't take me wrong. I'm not discounting your sighting at all. Just because it was at night doesn't mean you didn't see it. I totally believe you. Look at my story. People tell me I imagined it. What do they know anyway!\n.
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A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Could be a strange mirage. Sometimes weird mirage can project skyline of cities beyond horizon or just strange shapes in sky when atmosphere refract lights in unusual ways.
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Unidentified Flying object\n\nusually "aliens"!
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The atmosphere is made up of several layers,each one with a varying density.Thus,the speed of light differs in different layers of the atmosphere and the light gets refracted(deviated from its path when it travels from one medium to another)when passing from one layer of atmosphere to another.Due to this refraction of light in the different layers of the atrmosphere,stars appear to twinkle
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The color inside the sun is white.\nBecause it is white hot.\n\nBut actually it is hotter as you move away slighly. No one knows the reason for this yet.\n\nstef
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YES, me and my friend were driving and all the sudden up in the sky a bright yellow light  flew across the sky, kind of like a shooting star, but then it stopped and hoverd for like a second and then shot straight down, when it seemed like it should have hit the ground there was a bright flash of light. this was almost two years ago, it sucks because you had to be there to see how weird it was, and its impossible to get people to take you seriously, so i kinda just let it go
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This is caused by thermic convection of the air. In the deserts you normally have high differences in temperature between day and night, so hot air is rising rapidly while cold air is moving downwards after sunset. This different densities in the air makes the light bend and the stars seems as if they are dancing, just as if you were looking through an irregular glass. \nIt's a bad night for astronomers.
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there are defferent sphares of light.   White light comes from the sun and when it hits the atmospher it splits into different colors of the rainbow.  Blue being the fastest light is the only light that escapes the atmospher and that is what makes a blue sky.  Blue skies also mean clear skies.  now a red sky means lots of deferent types of air in the sky.  in the morning the sun is just starting to warm up the atmospher.  so you have a lot of defferent types of air going to get charged up.   Think of it like starting all the appliences  in your kitchen starting up but you don't know what they are gonna do.  basically you get speratic weather.  As apposed to a blue sky getting warmed up.  All it does is warm up the air.    \n \nhope this helps\n-David-
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I believe they are refering to sheet lightning that never touches the ground. In the tropics it can be extremely brilliant lighting up the sky like a neon glow.