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Solar Wind Coming, Radiation Impact, Hurricane and Quakes | S0 News
Oct.28.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKmyw-rBmlE
https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-14-us-states-oct-27-29-2025
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Stefan Burns
@StefanBurnsGeo
G1-G2 geomagnetic storming is likely during October 28th to the 30th due to the Sun-Earth high-speed-stream connection from jack-o-lantern coronal hole 🎃
8:46 PM · Oct 27, 2025
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1983017506928226328
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-alarms-expertsnasa-avi-loeb-nostradamus-baba-vanga-clash-over-earths-fate-1750609
https://usaherald.com/as-3i-atlas-re-emerges-from-behind-the-sun-nasas-activation-of-its-planetary-defense-plan-comes-into-focus/
https://www.ufonews.co/post/3i-atlas-new-photos-revealed-and-massive-surge-of-sightings
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1982672233886871751
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://medium.com/@davidsereda
https://english.pravda.ru/science/108800-vanga/
3I/ATLAS Alarms Experts—NASA, Avi Loeb, Nostradamus and Baba Vanga Clash Over Earth's Fate
28 October 2025, 10:24 AM GMT
While scientists are confident it is a comet, its origins have ignited wild theories, including the persistent idea that it could be an alien spacecraft.
As it approaches its perihelion—its closest point to the Sun—on 29 October 2025, one question has captured the public's imagination: Will 3I/ATLAS hit Earth?
From hard science at NASA to bizarre prophecies from the past, here is what is being said about the cosmic traveller.
Did Nostradamus Predict the Arrival of 3I/ATLAS?
As reported by USA Herald, some enthusiasts and historians believe that Nostradamus may have hinted at events like the arrival of 3I/ATLAS.
One quatrain often cited reads: 'From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, a harbinger of fate; the world pleads. Science and fate in a cosmic dance, the fate of the Earth, a second chance.'
Because Nostradamus' writings are vague and metaphorical, interpretations differ widely. Still, the verse has resurfaced online, fuelling debates and social media theories linking ancient prophecy to the modern interstellar comet.
Baba Vanga's Alien Prophecy and 3I/ATLAS
Baba Vanga, the late Bulgarian clairvoyant who died more than 25 years ago, continues to trend on social media due to her alleged predictions.
Many of her 2025 prophecies circulating online are grim, often involving large-scale destruction and loss of life.
Among them is a claim that 'aliens' would visit Earth in 2025, a prediction that has resurfaced after the discovery of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
As per reports cited by NDTV, Vanga allegedly warned, 'Humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life, possibly leading to a global crisis or apocalypse'.
However, there is very little credible source material found on this prediction over 3I/ATLAS.
An Alien 'Mothership'? Avi Loeb's Take on 3I/ATLAS
According to Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who started monitoring 3I/ATLAS shortly after it was discovered in July 2025, there is a more unusual way to interpret the data.
He speculates that if the object were some sort of massive 'mothership', it might be able to use the gravity of the Sun to launch smaller probes.
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This would take advantage of the Oberth effect, a technique that enables spacecraft to accelerate significantly while slingshotting around a massive body like a star or planet.
Loeb's hypothesis, while outside the mainstream, paints a fascinating picture of a potential technological artefact cleverly using physics to its advantage.
Loeb also pointed to earlier simulations that showed that, in an ideal scenario, NASA's Juno spacecraft might have intercepted 3I/ATLAS near Jupiter.
While purely hypothetical, he argues that this underscores how rare such interstellar encounters are and how humanity may be missing valuable opportunities to investigate them up close.
NASA's Official Trajectory for 3I/ATLAS: No Impact
For those concerned about doomsday scenarios, NASA has offered a clear and reassuring prediction.
According to the space agency, while the object designated 3I/ATLAS will travel into the inner solar system, it will not approach Earth closely and will not hit Earth.
The closest the comet will come is approximately 1.8 astronomical units. This is a vast distance, translating to about 170 million miles (270 million kilometres) away, or nearly twice the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
NASA's analysis of the comet's trajectory confirms that there is no risk of impact with our planet, allowing scientists and sky-watchers to observe its journey with curiosity rather than fear.
A Close Encounter: How 3I/ATLAS Will Be Studied
The comet's journey toward the Sun will also be a milestone event in other ways: some human-made spacecraft already in space may cross through its ion tail and gather new data about it. This presents an unexpected scientific opportunity.
Between 25 October and 6 November, missions such as the Hera mission (from the European Space Agency) and Europa Clipper (from NASA) might pass through the comet's trail, analysing its composition from a unique vantage point.
As 3I/ATLAS continues its silent journey past our Sun, it leaves two distinct trails: one of gas and dust that our spacecraft hope to sample, and another of human fascination, fear, and wonder.
While science assures us of our planet's safety, the visitor from deep space has proven to be a cosmic mirror, reflecting our greatest hopes and anxieties about the universe.
Whether it is a simple comet, an alien 'mothership,' or a harbinger of prophecy, its true nature will soon be tested.
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I nominate Trump to be Earth's emissary
NASA has classified data on a space object over Moscow
October 28, 2025 02:30
NASA has closed access to information about the 2025 US6 object in the base of close approaches to the Earth after a flight of a bolide was spotted over Moscow.
This was reported in the Laboratory of Solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to experts, on the morning of October 27, information about 2025 US6 was publicly available.
According to calculations, an object about two meters in size was supposed to fly over the Earth on October 28 at a distance of 150 thousand km.
The deletion of data in the Russian Academy of Sciences is associated with the appearance of a bright object of unknown origin over Moscow.
The academy noted that under the index 2025 US6 in the NASA catalog could not be an asteroid, but a Chinese satellite DRO-B.
The launch of the device into lunar orbit in 2024 ended in failure, and the satellite was on an unstable trajectory.
According to the information available to astronomers, in March 2025 it was transferred to a retrograde orbit around the Earth — from east to west, which coincides with the direction of movement of the observed car.
Earlier, experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the nature of the flying object is unclear — the estimated speed of movement indicates a version of an asteroid, but fragmentation during a fall and a long visibility time indicates the artificial nature of the object.
If the latter assumption is confirmed, the object may very likely turn out to be a Chinese satellite DRO-B, the RAS said.
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/10/28/nasa-has-classified-data-on-a-space-object-over-moscow
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NASA, Lockheed Martin Complete Orion Stacking for Artemis II Mission
October 27, 2025
NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully connected the Orion spacecraft with the Space Launch System rocket on Oct. 19, advancing preparations for the planned launch of the Artemis II mission in early 2026.
How Was the Orion Spacecraft Integrated With the SLS?
Lockheed said Friday the human-rated Orion spacecraft called Integrity was brought to the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building, where NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems team installed it on top of the SLS rocket.
“The full stack of Orion on the SLS is a truly spectacular sight. Our teams have been working tirelessly to finalize these last steps and ensure Orion takes the crew to the moon and brings them home safely,” said Robert Lightfoot, president of Lockheed Martin Space and a three-time winner of the Wash100 Award.
What Are the Next Steps Before Artemis III Mission Launch?
After the stacking, the teams will complete electrical, data and umbilical hookups between the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System.
The combined systems will then be subjected to integrated testing. Once done, the vehicle will be transported to Launch Pad 39B for a wet dress rehearsal in 2026.
“Soon, we will be launching four astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over half a century on Artemis II,” said Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy.
https://www.executivebiz.com/articles/nasa-lockheed-martin-orion-artemis-ii
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nasa-space-rocket-moon-bound.html
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Glowing meteor trail photobombs Comet Lemmon in incredible telescope footage. 'A pure perspective miracle'
October 27, 2025
Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured spectacular footage of a glowing meteor trail wrapping around the colossal tail of Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, as the wandering solar system body approached the constellation Serpens Caput in Earth's sky.
The bright meteor tore through the night shortly before Masi snapped a two-minute exposure of Comet Lemmon with an astrographic camera operated by the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy at 1:43 p.m. EDT (1743 GMT) on Oct. 24.
Masi's image caught the stream of ionized gas left in the meteor's wake as it rapidly expanded and rose in the upper atmosphere to create a visually spectacular wave effect, which appeared to wrap around Comet Lemmon's tail from our Earthly perspective.
A subtle fan-like pattern can also be seen rippling across the image, created as wayward light struck the camera sensor.
"The phenomenon is associated with the ionization of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere caused by the meteor event, followed by its recombination, which produces the emission of light at that wavelength," Masi wrote on the Virtual Telescope Project's website.
Under certain conditions, these glowing trails can appear to form spirals in the upper atmosphere. But despite how intertwined the two appear in the photo, Masi writes, the coiling afterglow of the meteor is actually quite far from the tail of Comet Lemmon.
"In this photograph, the meteor's afterglow appears to coil around the comet's ion tail — a pure perspective miracle, since the former is an atmospheric effect induced by the meteor, while the comet itself was about 100 million kilometers away."
Masi also released a spectacular timelapse of the event captured between 1:37 p.m. (17:37 GMT) to 2:12 p.m. (18:12 GMT) on Oct. 24 showing the meteor's ion trail twisting around Comet Lemmon as satellites left streaking trails through the image frames.
Comet Lemmon has brightened dramatically since its discovery in January earlier this year and is currently estimated to have a magnitude of approximately +4.2, according to the Comet Observation database (COBS) run by the Crni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia.
Magnitude is the scale used to measure the apparent brightness of objects in the night sky. The lower the number, the brighter the object.
That means that it's possible to spot the comet as a dim, hazy patch of light under dark sky conditions, though a pair of 10X50 binoculars or a backyard telescope will help resolve its light!
https://www.space.com/stargazing/glowing-meteor-trail-photobombs-comet-lemmon-in-incredible-telescope-footage-a-pure-perspective-miracle
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/10/26/comet-c-2025-a6-lemmon-and-a-meteor-red-afterglow-an-epic-image-24-oct-2025/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLwgcQ26Ez8
1st cosmic view from 4MOST looks pure sci-fi
Oct. 28, 2025
On October 18, 2025, the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) instrument observed the sky with its full array of 2,400 optical fibers for the first time, successfully capturing and analyzing the light from a vast range of cosmic objects.
What is it?
Mounted on ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), 4MOST is designed to provide spectra for thousands of celestial sources at once, enabling astronomers to study the composition, temperature and motion of stars and galaxies across huge areas of the night sky.
Unlike traditional telescopes that observe one or a few objects at a time, 4MOST's engineering allows it to conduct massive, simultaneous surveys, seeing more things at one time.
The instrument's wide hexagonal field of view covers a large portion of the sky in each observation, making it ideal for studying cosmic evolution and dark energy.
Where is it?
4MOST and the VISTA telescope are located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
Why is it amazing?
During its first observations, 4MOST turned its hexagonal gaze toward a region in the southern sky that includes two popular celestial targets: the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) and the global cluster NGC 288.
Each of the colored dots in the image represents a distinct object whose light was captured and analyzed by one of 4MOST's 2,400 fibers.
From each target, the instrument collected a spectrum, a detailed fingerprint of light that reveals key physical properties such as chemical composition, temperature, radial velocity and more.
Over the next decade, 4MOST will deliver millions of spectra, helping scientists tackle some of astronomy's biggest questions.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/1st-cosmic-view-from-4most-looks-pure-sci-fi-space-photo-of-the-day-for-oct-28-2025
https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann25007b/
Scientists discover 3 Earth-size exoplanets that may have double sunsets — like Tatooine in Star Wars
October 27, 2025
Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three Earth-size worlds orbiting around twin stars.
It has previously been theorized that binary systems are hostile to the formation of complex planetary arrangements, meaning this discovery could change how we think about planet formation and the stability of worlds after formation.
What makes the planets of TOI-2267 even more exciting is they also break some previously held exoplanet records.
Furthermore, the binary star nature of this system, located around 190 light-years from Earth, means these exoplanets could experience dual starsets reminiscent of the famous scene in Star Wars: A New Hope in which Luke Skywalker gazes dreamily out at the stars of his homeworld, Tatooine.
"Our analysis shows a unique planetary arrangement: two planets are transiting one star, and the third is transiting its companion star," Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernánde, study team member and a researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège), said in a statement.
"This makes TOI-2267 the first binary system known to host transiting planets around both of its stars."
Record breakers!
Binary star systems come in a range of shapes, sizes and arrangements. TOI-2267 is a "compact binary." This means the stars that comprise this system orbit each other in close proximity.
This closeness causes gravitational instability that existing planetary formation models have suggested should result in an environment unsuitable for planet formation.
Yet, planets have formed in TOI-2267.
"Our discovery breaks several records, as it is the most compact and coldest pair of stars with planets known, and it is also the first in which planets have been recorded transiting around both components," Francisco J. Pozuelos, study team co-leader and a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), said in a statement.
Pozuelos and colleagues got their first hints about these three distant Earth-like worlds when they examined data from TESS using their detection software, SHERLOCK.
This early indication of planets in the TOI-2267 system prompted the team to get ready for more observations with several other observatories.
This included SPECULOOS, a network of robotic telescopes comprised of SPECULOOS Southern Observatory at the Paranal Observatory in Chile and SPECULOOS Northern Observatory at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, and a pair of telescopes in Belgium called TRAPPIST (Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope).
These facilities are specially adapted to investigate small exoplanets around cool and faint stars, meaning they were vital in allowing the team to characterize TOI-2267, and thus, discovering its surprising nature.
"This system is a true natural laboratory for understanding how rocky planets can emerge and survive under extreme dynamical conditions, where we previously thought their stability would be compromised," Pozuelos said.
The queries raised regarding planet formation by this system could be an investigation that is right in the wheelhouse of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as well as the next generation of ground-based observatories.
These instruments should allow astronomers to precisely measure the masses, densities and possibly even the atmospheric chemistry of the newly discovered planets of TOI-2267.
"Discovering three Earth-sized planets in such a compact binary system is a unique opportunity," Zúñiga-Fernández concluded.
"It allows us to test the limits of planet formation models in complex environments and to better understand the diversity of possible planetary architectures in our galaxy."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/scientists-discover-3-earth-size-exoplanets-that-may-have-double-sunsets-like-tatooine-in-star-wars
https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20514567/en/three-earth-sized-planets-discovered-in-a-compact-binary-system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/10/aa54419-25/aa54419-25.html
Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the ISS today
October 28, 2025
A pair of cosmonauts will work outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the off-Earth action live.
Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will conduct a roughly six-hour spacewalk today, starting at around 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT).
You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency. Coverage will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT).
The duo "will install experiment hardware on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module, and relocate a control panel for the European robotic arm attached to Nauka," NASA News Chief Cheryl Warner wrote in an emailed statement on Monday (Oct. 27).
Most of NASA's activities are on hold due to the ongoing government shutdown, but the agency will stream today's spacewalk "and provide minimal technical commentary as this activity relates to excepted mission operations," Warner wrote.
This will be the second spacewalk in less than two weeks for Ryzhikov, who commands the International Space Station's current Expedition 73, and flight engineer Zubritsky.
The duo also performed an extravehicular activity on Oct. 16, installing a semiconductor experiment on the orbiting lab and jettisoning an old HDTV camera.
Today's spacewalk will be the third for Ryzhikov, who will wear a spacesuit with red stripes, and the second for for Zubritsky, whose suit will have blue stripes, according to Warner.
It will be the 277th overall spacewalk in the history of the ISS, which has hosted rotating astronaut crews continuously since Nov. 2, 2000.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/watch-2-russian-cosmonauts-spacewalk-outside-the-iss-today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHUqn0X4Hs