A Failed Star Called 'The Accident' Puzzles Astronomers

Dan Caselden was up late on November 3, 2018, playing the video game Counter-Strike, when he made astronomy history. Every time he died, he would jump on his laptop to check in on an automated search he was running of NASA space telescope images. "It was very confusing," said Caselden. "It was moving faster than anything I've discovered. It was faint and fast, which made it very weird."