What does it mean when three stars aline???

Question

I was wondering what it meant because for the past two days, three stars have alined. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

What do you mean, when three stars align? Do you mean when they appear in a row in the sky? Than just means that they appear to us like that in two dimensions. Whatever stars you mean aren't in a line at all. They are at three very different distances.

Another thing is, if you see three stars in a row, they've been like that for thousands of years and the pattern will only change very slowly. Stars move so slowly against the sky that only a few of them have been seen to change position in recorded history.

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Answer 2

It means nothing. People for centuries have tried to attach meaning to stars and planets rising, aligning, etc. These stars only APPEAR to be aligning from our vantage point. If you viewed them from a different spot in the universe, they would not be in alignment. These stars are probably not even in the same galaxy as each other; it only looks that way from Earth.

People used to predict great calamities from solar and lunar eclipses. We now know that these events happen at predictable times through the year and are in no way predictors of good fortune or disaster.

By the way, if you only noticed this recently, at least one of them is a planet. The stars do not appear to move independently because they are so incredibly far away. All constellations move together across the sky in predictable patterns. Planets, on the other hand, are so close to us that they appear to move around much more. And the moon, the closest celestial body to us, appears to move daily.

Please don't get sucked into astrological meanings and fortune telling based on such events. It's not science.

Answer 3

Such an alignment doesn't mean a thing. Sounds like you've been noticing Orion's belt which is made of three stars aligned. Actually, though, they're not aligned at all; all three stars are at different distances from Earth and each other. The alignment is little more than an illusion.

Answer 4

It doesn't mean anything. If these are actually stars, then they move so slowly that you wouldn't see any change over your lifetime, so they've been aligned for a long long time. If one or more of them are planets, then it's just coincidence that they have aligned, and has no special meaning.

If you give us more information about these three stars, we could tell you more about them. We would need to know where you're located (city is enough), what time (and date) you see them (since the Earth is always rotating), and what direction and altitude you see them at (north, south, east, west, on the horizon, overhead, etc.)

Answer 5

It means you're looking at Orion's belt. Keep watching, and you'll notice that none of the stars ever change location in relationship to each other. That's why we have asterisms like Orion. The stars which make up the belt are named Alnitak (AL-nee-tak), Alnilam (AL-nee-lahm), and Mintaka (min-TAH-kah).


dave_rosko: All of the individual stars that we see at night are in this galaxy, the Milky Way. If they were in other galaxies, we would see them only as a part of that galaxy, not as individual stars.

Answer 6

Stars do not move rapidly enough to 'align' in a matter of days. There are some stars with rapid proper motion but I am not aware that any of these have 'aligned'. Are you sure you don't mean planets?

Answer 7

It means three stars are in a line. Since there are billions of stars this must happen a lot.

Answer 8

It's the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Answer 9

http://www.quietbay.net/Science/astronomy/nightsky/007.html

here, try this

have read an article about orion?

Answer 10

does it repersent a white tiger