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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Comet Lemmon Brightens

    09/30/2025 12:05:55 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    NASA ^ | 30 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Victor Sabet & Julien De Winter
    Explanation: Comet Lemmon is brightening and moving into morning northern skies. Besides Comet SWAN25B and Comet ATLAS, Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now the third comet currently visible with binoculars and on long camera exposures. Comet Lemmon was discovered early this year and is still headed into the inner Solar System. The comet will round the Sun on November 8, but first it will pass its nearest to the Earth -- at about half the Earth-Sun distance -- on October 21. Although the brightnesses of comets are notoriously hard to predict, optimistic estimates have Comet Lemmon then becoming visible to...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)

    09/18/2025 3:15:46 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    NASA ^ | 18 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral
    Explanation: A new visitor from the outer Solar System, comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) also known as SWAN25B was only discovered late last week, on September 11. That's just a day before the comet reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. First spotted by Vladimir Bezugly in images from the SWAN instrument on the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft, the comet was surprisingly bright but understandably difficult to see against the Sun's glare. Still close to the Sun on the sky, the greenish coma and tail of C/2025 R2 (SWAN) are captured in this telescopic snapshot from September 17. Spica, alpha star...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - New Comet SWAN25B over Mexico

    09/16/2025 12:30:36 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    NASA ^ | 16 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona
    Explanation: A newly discovered comet is already visible with binoculars. The comet, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and nicknamed SWAN25B, is brightening significantly as it emerges from the Sun's direction and might soon become visible on your smartphone -- if not your eyes. Although the brightnesses of comets are notoriously hard to predict, many comets appear brighter as they approach the Earth, with SWAN25B reaching only a quarter of the Earth-Sun distance near October 19. Nighttime skygazers will also be watching for a SWAN25B-spawned meteor shower around October 5 when our Earth passes through the plane of the comet's orbit. The unexpectedly...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Two Camera Comets in One Sky

    09/29/2025 12:25:06 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    NASA ^ | 29 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot (TWAN)
    Explanation: It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our Sun and will reach its closest approach in early October when it is also expected to be its brightest -- although still only likely visible with long exposures on a camera. The brighter comet, nicknamed SWAN25B, is now headed away from our Sun, although its closest approach to Earth...
  • ‘Massive’ comet hurtling toward us is larger than previously thought, could be alien tech, scientist says: ‘It could change everything for us’

    09/29/2025 11:15:02 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 99 replies
    nypost.com ^ | Sep. 29, 2025 | Ben Cost
    We’re gonna need a bigger telescope. Scientists have discovered that the 3I/ATLAS — a Manhattan-sized interstellar object that potentially has alien tech — is much larger than previously thought, according to a new report. First discovered by NASA on July 1, the cosmic anomaly has been under watch by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team as it shoots across the solar system. The object, which is believed to be a comet, reportedly has interstellar origins, making it the third ever object from beyond the solar system ever detected after ‘Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov in 2019....
  • Unusual New 3I/ATLAS Discovery Suggests the Interstellar Comet is “Anomalously Massive”

    09/29/2025 9:23:34 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    The Debrief ^ | September 28, 2025 | Micah Hanks
    The mysterious comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be extremely large, making it orders of magnitude more massive than two other confirmed interstellar objects observed in our solar system in years past, a new study suggests. Based on a new analysis of the most precise tracking data collected on the object since its discovery in July, the interstellar comet appears to be “anomalously massive,” a finding that raises new questions regarding our expectations about interstellar objects that occasionally traverse our solar system. The research was detailed in a new paper by Richard Cloete, Peter Vere, and Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, which places...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day -

    09/26/2025 12:56:30 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 4 replies
    NASA ^ | 26 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block
    Explanation: A new visitor to the inner Solar System, comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) sports a long ion tail extending diagonally across this almost 7 degree wide telescopic field of view recorded on September 21. A fainter fellow comet also making its inner Solar System debut, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), can be spotted above and left of SWAN's greenish coma, just visible against the background sea of stars in the constellation Virgo. Both new comets were only discovered in 2025 and are joined in this celestial frame by ruddy planet Mars (bottom), a more familiar wanderer in planet Earth's night skies. The...
  • Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

    09/21/2025 4:57:09 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 64 replies
    Futurism ^ | 21/9/25
    Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Since then, they've been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it's probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one has posited that it could be a remnant of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization — a colorful claim, but one that NASA has disputed as a flight of fancy. Regardless, it's an interesting visitor. In a paper presented at the...
  • Comet 2025 R2 SWAN (pt 1 of 3) Updates 🚨(See 1:45 video) | 3I ATLAS | THINK Strategic🚨 It's Prefect

    09/16/2025 9:32:25 PM PDT · by Orlando · 13 replies
    Youtube ^ | 9-16-2025 | Vet/Father
    1:45 Look at 3I Atlas at 12 O'Clock and Swan at 6 O'Clock (think strategic)🚨
  • When a Comet from Another Star Turns Green: What 3I/ATLAS Is Teaching Us

    09/16/2025 6:00:26 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    nasaspacenews.com ^ | September 16, 2025 | Staff
    Imagine looking up during a total lunar eclipse, expecting the moon to turn deep red—and then you notice a faint green glow from a mysterious visitor not from our solar system. That’s exactly what happened with 3I/ATLAS, and its unexpected color shift is opening a window into new comet chemistry and the nature of interstellar visitors. What is 3I/ATLAS and What Has Been Seen So Far 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object (ISO) ever observed, and it’s behaving in ways that are surprising astronomers. Discovered on July 1, 2025, by the survey system ATLAS in Chile, 3I/ATLAS has been...
  • 3I/ATLAS Metal Signature Could Indicate Artificial Origin, But Science Urges Caution

    09/01/2025 3:41:31 PM PDT · by sopo · 51 replies
    Atlas.com ^ | 8/31/2025 | Joao Carreira
    A Metal Pattern That Shouldn't Exist in Nature Something unprecedented is happening with our alien visitor, and some scientists are asking the unthinkable: could 3I/ATLAS be artificial? Two of the world's most powerful telescopes have detected a metal emission pattern from 3I/ATLAS that breaks every known rule of natural space chemistry. The object is producing streams of atomic nickel vapor while showing absolutely no trace of iron, a combination so rare it has never been observed in any natural space object. In the cosmos, nickel and iron are cosmic twins, forged together in stellar cores and found together in virtually...
  • Manhattan-sized interstellar object is covered in a layer of CO2, shocking scientists, NASA images reveal

    08/27/2025 6:36:02 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 75 replies
    NY Post ^ | Aug. 27, 2025 | By Shane Galvin
    Both the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory observatory SPHEREx snapped new images of 3I/ATLAS this week, almost two months after it was first spotted in the skies above Chile. 3I/ATLAS glows red in the new images with a seemingly threatening aura, though most scientists believe the object to be merely a 12-mile-wide interstellar comet. The snaps showed that 3I/ATLAS is “outgassing” as it approaches the Sun, which was expected. However, the object is dumping out a conspicuous amount of carbon dioxide and a surprisingly small amount of water and carbon monoxide, according to experts, including Harvard...
  • BREAKING NEWS : 🚨 3I ATLAS SPEED INCREASE "Faster than a speeding bullet" & ON August 24th the Veil will be Removed !

    08/20/2025 5:24:03 AM PDT · by Orlando · 67 replies
    Thesky , other ^ | 8-20-25 | Vetfather
    07/01/2025 61.0 km/s =136,560.54 mph 07/04/2025. 61.4 km/s = 137,385.81 mph | Perihelion: 29 Oct 2025 11:29 UTC [-117d 6h 35m 35s] 07/10/2025 61.5 km/s = 137,607.07 mph | Perihelion: 29 Oct 2025 11:29 UTC [-111d 9h 14m 49s] 07/31/2025. 62.2 km/s =139,172.08 mph | Perihelion: 29 Oct 2025 11:29 UTC [-89d 16h 35m 51s] 08/03/2025 . 62.3 km/s = 139,361.08 mph. | 08/05/2025 . 62.4 km/s = 139,582.44 mph | 08/15/2025 . 62.9 km/s = 140,569.70 mph | Perihelion: 29 Oct 2025 11:29 UTC [-74d 20h 25m 14s] 08/16/2025 . 63.0 km/s = 140,790.96 mph | 08/19/2025. 63.1 km/s...
  • Manhattan-sized interstellar object appears to emit its own light: Harvard scientist (More of Avi Loeb's provocative speculation to generate interest?)

    08/20/2025 3:42:43 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 47 replies
    NY Post ^ | Shane Galvin
    Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if verified, would contradict NASA’s classification of the Manhattan-sized object as a comet, the scientist argues in a new blog post. Loeb and a colleague analyzed photos released by NASA of the object in determining that the source of its glow is likely not from the sun. The astrophysicist wrote the “brightness profile around 3I/ATLAS implies that the nucleus dominates the observed light.” “The simplest interpretation is that the nucleus...
  • Joe Rogan Experience #2365 - Anna Paulina Luna

    08/14/2025 5:21:07 AM PDT · by iontheball · 31 replies
    Rumble ^ | August 14, 2025 | Joe Rogan
    This is one of Rogan's great video interviews of Anna Paulina Luna on far ranging topics, such as inter-dimensional beings, the Arch of the Covenant, JFK's assassination, UFO's, Remote Viewing, CIA, etc., etc. Definitely, worth a listen for a mind expanding experience.
  • Harvard physicist says massive interstellar object could be alien probe on 'reconnaissance mission' (Avi Loeb - Speculation on thin evidence: trajectory + odd glow)

    08/11/2025 2:42:20 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 77 replies
    Fox News ^ | Sophia Compton
    Astronomers recently discovered a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system, and a Harvard physicist is sounding the alarm that its strange characteristics might indicate it’s more than just a typical comet. "Maybe the trajectory was designed," Dr. Avi Loeb, science professor at Harvard University, told Fox News Digital. "If it had an objective to sort of to be on a reconnaissance mission, to either send mini probes to those planets or monitor them… It seems quite anomalous." The object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — was first detected in early July by an Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS,...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS from Hubble

    08/09/2025 2:24:18 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 13 replies
    NASA ^ | 9 Aug, 2025 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA) et al. - Processing; Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
    Explanation: Discovered on July 1 with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, 3I/ATLAS is so designated as the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. It follows 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the comet 2I/Borisov in 2019. Also known as C/2025 N1, 3I/ATLAS is a comet. A teardrop-shaped cloud of dust, ejected from its icy nucleus warmed by increasing sunlight, is seen in this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope captured on July 21. Background stars are streaked in the exposure as Hubble tracked the fastest comet ever recorded...
  • Hubble captures sharpest image yet of interstellar visitor passing through our Solar System

    08/07/2025 5:51:25 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 43 replies
    skyatnightmagazine ^ | 08 07 2025 | Iain Todd
    The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently passing through our Solar System. Observations by Hubble have enabled astronomers to better estimate the size of the comet's nucleus, which is made of dust and ice. Hubble managed to capture a dust plume being ejected by the comet, as well as a glimpse of a dust tail streaming away from its nucleus. SNIP
  • 13,000 Years Ago: How Bad Was the Younger Dryas in the Fertile Crescent? [19:50]

    07/21/2025 8:12:45 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 26 replies
    YouTube ^ | February 23, 2023 | Ancient Architects
    The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is a very significant period of time, because it marks what I believe is the true foundartions for the origins of civilisation, when we see the first permanent settlements in the Fertile Crescent followed by the onset of agriculture, and from then on humanity has developed exponentially.From an archaeological point of view, it’s truly a fascinating time period, with so many incredible sites discovered in the past century, from Ancient Jericho in the West Bank, to Mureybet and Tell Qaramel in Syria, and Kortik Tepe, Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Turkey.The foundations of these sites were...
  • 12,800-Year-Old Comet Explosion Discovered in Ocean Sediment, Rewriting Climate History

    08/07/2025 9:59:18 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Daily Galaxy ^ | August 07, 2025 | Lydia Amazouz
    New research reveals compelling evidence of a comet explosion 12,800 years ago, found in ocean sediment cores, supporting the theory of a global climate shift during the Younger Dryas period. ================================================================== In a groundbreaking study, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of a comet that exploded in Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago. The discovery, detailed in the journal PLOS One, stems from an in-depth analysis of oceanic sediment cores extracted from Baffin Bay, located near Greenland. These cores, containing ancient sedimentary layers, revealed the presence of unique microscopic particles that could only have originated from a comet or meteor. The study,...