Mysterious Disappearances: Unraveling the Vanishing Stars

The Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project has found around 100 stars that have disappeared from view in the last 70 years, leaving astrophysicists puzzled. Possible explanations include failed supernovas, gravitational lensing, gamma-ray bursts, or the presence of closer moving objects like asteroids. The search for these vanished stars also aimed to find evidence of advanced civilizations, such as Dyson Spheres, but no good candidates have been identified so far.