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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK1i5AwEtzU
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1983871020831215637
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3I/ATLAS Rapidly Brightens and Gets Bluer than the Sun Near Perihelion
October 30, 2025
New images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it approached perihelion on October 29, 2025, reveal rapid brightening and a color bluer than the Sun.
3I/ATLAS is currently hidden from terrestrial telescopes behind the Sun, as it went through solar conjunction relative to Earth on October 21, 2025.
However, this unfavorable geometry of opposition from Earth — a possible hint of design, placed 3I/ATLAS within the fields of view of several space-based solar coronagraphs and heliospheric imagers, enabling its continued observation during its final approach toward perihelion.
The new observations were taken by the following set of instruments:
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STEREO (“Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory”) consists of two identical spacecraft launched in 2006: STEREO-A, which orbits slightly more quickly than Earth around the Sun, and STEREO-B, which orbits slightly more slowly than Earth around the Sun.
STEREO-B has not been operational since 2014, so only STEREO-A observed 3I/ATLAS. The observations were made by two cameras, HI1 and COR2, on the SECCHI (“Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation”) instrument suite.
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SOHO (“SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory”), launched in 1995, orbits the Sun–Earth first Lagrange (L1) point, carrying the LASCO (“Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph”) coronagraphs.
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GOES-19, launched in 2024, is a weather satellite operating in a geostationary orbit, carrying the CCOR-1 (“Compact CORonagraph 1”) coronagraph.
The new paper (accessible here) reports observations of 3I/ATLAS from STEREO-A’s SECCHI HI1 and COR2, SOHO’s LASCO C3, and GOES-19’s CCOR-1 instruments during the months of September and October 2025.
The data shows a rapid rise in the brightness of 3I/ATLAS, scaling inversely with distance from the Sun to the power of -7.5 (±1).
CCOR-1 resolves a glow extending out to 300,000 kilometers around 3I/ATLAS, comparable to the scale of the plume of carbon dioxide, traced by the SPHEREx Space Observatory on August 8–12, 2025 (accessible here).
In addition, 3I/ATLAS appears distinctly bluer than the Sun in LASCO/CCOR-1 color photometry — in contrast to earlier observations showing it to be red — suggesting that emission contributes a substantial fraction of the overall visible brightness.
Following its 2025 October 29 perihelion, 3I/ATLAS will return to be observable from Earth at twilight.
As it arrives at closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025, ground-based observations as well as data from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes during the month of December will be able to characterize 3I/ATLAS in great detail.
The new data suggests that 3I/ATLAS will likely emerge from perihelion brighter than before.
The authors of the new paper state:
“The reason for 3I/ATLAS’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar distances from the Sun, remains unclear.”
The appearance of 3I/ATLAS as bluer than the Sun is very surprising. Dust is expected to redden the scattered sunlight, and the surface of the object is expected to be an order of magnitude colder than the 5,800 degrees Kelvin at the photosphere of the Sun, resulting in it having a redder color than the Sun.
We must therefore add the blue color at perihelion as a ninth anomaly to the list of unexpected properties (compiled most recently here) of this strange interstellar object.
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-rapidly-brightens-and-gets-bluer-than-the-sun-near-perihelion-3bf100df8390
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-q-a-on-3i-atlas-at-perihelion-62b7d592519b
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25035v1
https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/comet-3i-atlas-live-tracker-latest-updates-location-visibility-map-naked-eye-telescope-watch-date-time-liveblog-153071089
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1983875648855720275
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_v2xj4ezn4 (Dr Brian Keating - Avi Loeb: 3I-ATLAS Anomalies Scientists Are IGNORING! (Repost from October 2, 2025))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1Znd73ThI (John Lenard Walson - @#3IATLAS what is it and space-based watchers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHocov1gVpc (3I/ATLAS & The Aliens Among Us | The Ryan Files)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNk6RAWqhCk (FADE TO BLACK Radio - Ep. 2233 3I/ATLAS: Oct 29th The Arrival!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UzzaUKQ_q0 (Earthfiles - Oct 29, 2025 - Why is truth about 3I/ATLAS hidden by click-bait?)
Anca Faur Aldrin, wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, dies at 66
Updated: Oct 30, 2025 / 10:16 AM EDT
Dr. Anca Faur Aldrin, the fourth wife of pioneering astronaut Buzz Aldrin and the executive vice president of Buzz Aldrin Ventures, has died at the age of 66, according to a statement from her loved ones.
“Dr. Anca Aldrin, wife of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, peacefully passed away last night with her husband and her son, Vlad Ghenciu by her side,” reads a statement credited to both Faur and Aldrin’s families.
“Mrs. Aldrin, an accomplished chemical engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, served as the treasurer for the California Hydrogen Business Council and as Executive Vice President of Buzz Aldrin Ventures LLC.”
The statement did not include a cause of death.
Aldrin and Faur got married in Los Angeles on Jan. 20, 2023 — his 93rd birthday. At the time, he said they were “as excited as eloping teenagers.”
In a statement released upon her death, Adrin, 95, called her “the love of my life.”
“I am so fortunate to have found and married the love of my life,” reads Aldrin’s statement. “She brought joy to everything we did together. I will miss her dearly.”
Aldrin and Faur had been dating for years before tying the knot in 2023. In 2019, they attended the Living Legends of Aviation awards together.
The same year, they appeared alongside then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
“When I met Anca I instantly recognized that here was a woman who is the whole “Wizard of Oz” package: Brains. Heart. Courage,” Aldrin told People magazine a few months after their wedding in 2023.
Adrin had been married three times before wedding Faur in 2023, first to Joan Archerin in 1954, to Beverly Van Zile in 1975, and to Lois Driggs Cannon in 1988.
https://phl17.com/nmw/anca-faur-aldrin-wife-of-astronaut-buzz-aldrin-dies-at-66/
https://x.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1983577928224141486
Colorado Sues Trump Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Space Command Move
October 30, 2025
Colorado officials are suing the Trump administration to try to stop the relocation of Space Command HQ from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, AL.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, argues that President Donald Trump’s decision to move the combatant command is “unconstitutional” because it violates the state’s right to carry out elections however it wants.
Wait, what? The case builds off of Trump’s own words. When announcing the relocation in September, Trump said the decision was driven in part by Colorado’s use of mail-in voting.
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“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting, they went to all mail-in voting, so they have automatically crooked elections,” Trump said at the time.
The lawsuit alleges that this statement goes directly against “the foundation of our republic.”
“The Constitution does not permit the executive to punish or retaliate against states for lawfully exercising sovereign powers reserved for the states, as President Trump and the Executive Branch have unlawfully done here,” it says.
“One of the core state sovereign powers is the authority to regulate elections.”
By the numbers: The state is fighting for more than just what it argues are democratic principles.
The command accounts for nearly 1,400 jobs in the state, and accounts for $1B of annual economic impact, according to a report in The Colorado Sun.
Industry has also put down roots around the command’s home base, and more than 110,000 people work in aerospace and defense jobs in Colorado Springs, the report says.
How we got here: The location of the command has been a political football for almost five years—with no end in sight.
In January 2021, the Trump administration announced Space Command, which had been based in Colorado Springs on an interim basis after it was re-established in 2019, would be heading to Huntsville.
After leaving office, Trump told an Alabama radio show that he “single-handedly” made the basing decision.
After multiple reviews, former President Joe Biden announced in July 2023 that Space Command would stay put in Colorado, where it declared full operational capability in December 2023.
That seemed to be the end of it—until Trump returned to the White House. Last month, he made good on promises to reverse Biden’s decision, saying that Space Command would be moving to Alabama.
What’s next: The timeline for the legal case isn’t clear, but Colorado officials have asked for a stop to any work on moving the HQ while it’s considered.
https://payloadspace.com/colorado-sues-trump-over-unconstitutional-space-command-move/
https://coag.gov/app/uploads/2025/10/2025.10.29-Space-Command-Compl.pdf
ESA Space Safety Fleet
30/10/2025
Hazards originating in space carry the risk of sudden disaster and potentially derailing everyday life, from natural threats like asteroids and solar storms to the human-made one of space debris.
ESA’s Space Safety Programme is dedicated to making sure we can detect, predict and mitigate these space hazards in time, and builds towards a sustainable future in space.
It aims to build a fleet of missions and other projects to keep us and our future in space safe.
At ESA’s upcoming 2025 Ministerial Conference, the Space Safety Programme is proposing new activities to help ensure independent, continuous access to critical data and satellite services for Europe, imperative in this time of geopolitical instability.
“While ESA’s Space Safety activities help to keep us safe, its activities also help secure Europe’s position at the forefront of exciting new markets and space technologies,” says Holger Krag, Head of Space Safety at ESA.
“We must ensure safety in Earth orbit to have a future in space. This requires new technologies to achieve our ambitious goals as part of ESA’s strategy 2040, and we are here to push this process forward any way we can for Europe.”
One example is the eagerly awaited space weather mission Vigil to a unique location in deep space, from where it can give us crucial warning time.
Its advance warnings of oncoming solar storms will help protect spacecraft and astronauts in space and infrastructure on the ground.
Defending Earth against asteroids is quickly becoming reality. The Space Safety programme works on both sides of the planetary defence coin: asteroid detection and predictions are becoming more and more accurate, while missions like Hera and Ramses train our response in case one might be needed.
There is no time to lose to safeguard the future of spaceflight.
We must clean up Earth’s orbits and show European leadership in making sure no more debris is generated if Europe wants to benefit from the exciting new technologies and markets in space.
ESA’s Zero Debris efforts aim to build both the sustainable satellites of the future and the community behind them.
At the same time, active debris removal and in-orbit servicing missions are paving the way to the ultimate goal of establishing a circular economy in space.
The current reality of debris in orbit also needs continued attention: detecting, tracking and mitigating the effects of space debris.
This requires doing research and monitoring the space environment as well as developing practical tools like the CREAM platform for collision avoidance to support satellite operators.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/10/ESA_Space_Safety_Fleet