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I’m afraid to tell you that you did not just witness a dying star. Star deaths occur during very high energy events called novae or even higher supernovae. Very few of these have ever been seen, and if you saw one, you’d definitely know what you were seeing! What you most likely saw was something like a satellite passing overhead.
