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X Class Solar Flare at Earth, Comet Atlas and More | S0 News
Nov.9.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHep3Pd7X94
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/x17-flare-r3-strong-region-4274
https://www.spaceweather.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1987490371144687668
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-the-new-nearly-interstellar-object-c-2025-v1-related-to-3i-atlas-0f38a0baf494
https://medium.com/@davidsereda/3i-atlas-complex-jet-structured-angles-revealed-b0c14de02d45
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-radio-signal-detected-lines-1977-wow-signal-1753478
https://www.ndtv.com/science/interstellar-object-3i-atlas-loses-tail-reignites-debate-about-its-origin-and-composition-9601773
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlloXpo_Fc (David Nino Rodriguez and Stewart Swerdlow: Whistleblower ALERT: 3I/ATLAS Arrival Forces Governments to Prepare? Humanity Will Change Forever..)
https://www.youtube.com/@stewartswerdlow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA3XNrmoWl0 (MUFON's Photo Analysis Team Investigates What Exactly is 3i/Atlas? Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPfHhd07Pes (MUFON's Photo Analysis Team Investigates What Exactly is 3i/Atlas? Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0osL1GMJo (3iAtlas Forum : Kerry Casidy, Jean & Sebastien : Draco stealth ship coming for Starseeds? FESIG142 Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVA8KzdXQiU (Dark Journalist X-208: The Sky Event Cosmic Comets UFO File & 3I/ATLAS Op)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/3i-atlas-mystery-michio-kaku/
Is the New “Nearly Interstellar” Object C/2025 V1 Related to 3I/ATLAS?
November 8, 2025
In a Newsmax interview this morning (available here), I was asked about a new “nearly interstellar” object that was just discovered in the inner solar system after the perihelion passage of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
On the morning of November 2, 2025, the astronomer Gennady Borisov — discoverer of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov in 2019, identified a new “nearly interstellar” object which is officially labeled as C/2025 V1 (Borisov).
The object is by now catalogued by NASA’s JPL here and by the Minor Planet Center here.
The orbit of C/2025 V1 is inclined by 113 degrees relative to the ecliptic plane and follows an orbital plane that is nearly perpendicular to the orbit of 3I/ATLAS. Similarly to 3I/ATLAS, C/2025 V1 does not display a clear cometary tail.
The orbital eccentricity of C/2025 V1 is 1.0095 with an uncertainty of 0.0026. It would have been defined as unbound by gravity to the Sun, or equivalently a truly interstellar object, if its actual eccentricity was known to exceed 1 by a large margin.
However, C/2025 V1 most likely originated from the Oort cloud at the outskirts of the Solar System.
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The reason for this association is that if we integrate the motion of C/2025 V1 all the way back to a distance of 1,000 times the Earth-Sun separation (au) — where planets cannot affect it, and then recompute the orbit, a value of eccentricity so close to 1 will likely drop below 1.
A small gravitational impulse from Jupiter near perihelion is sufficient to make a bound Oort Cloud object appear slightly hyperbolic in the heliocentric orbital fit of JPL. In addition, unmodeled outgassing can easily shift the apparent eccentricity to a value below 1.
One of the fundamental unknowns regarding 3I/ATLAS is whether it represents a technological mothership that released mini-probes into the inner solar system.
C/2025 V1 is not related to 3I/ATLAS if it did not employ non-gravitational propulsion.
The closest separation of the two orbits is 75 million kilometers (0.5 au) and the objects were never closer than 225 million kilometers (1.5 au) from each other without propulsion.
The measured non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS is insufficient to bridge the gap with C/2025 V1.
The latest images of 3I/ATLAS show a complex structure of at least 7 jets (as discussed here).
Given that a large number of jets appear in opposite directions, the reported non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS (as discussed here) requires much more than 10–20% of its initial mass to have been ejected near perihelion.
Only a fraction of the ejected mass carries an excess momentum in a preferred direction. Therefore, the cloud of debris around 3I/ATLAS must carry a substantial fraction of its initial mass in case it is a natural comet that disintegrated near perihelion.
In that case, there would be no doubt about the composition of 3I/ATLAS since it lost a major fraction of its body mass to an unbound plume of gas.
The composition of the debris gas cloud can be determined through spectroscopy by the Webb telescope as 3I/ATLAS gets closest to Earth on December 19, 2025.
In contrast, technological thrusters could give the interstellar visitor a boost with much less mass jetted out. In a technological context, the required momentum is delivered at a higher gas speed.
Chemical rockets are propelled by an exhaust speed of 3–5 kilometers per second, which is ten times larger than the maximum ejection speed of volatiles that are sublimated by sunlight from cometary surfaces.
Ion thrusters reach an even higher ejection speed of 10–50 kilometers per second.
It would be easy to test whether 3I/ATLAS is natural or technological by measuring the outflow velocity, mass flux and composition of its jets during the coming month — leading to its perigee on December 19, 2025.
As I mentioned in a new interview on NewsNation (here), let us hope 3I/ATLAS will not deliver any unwanted gifts to Earth during the holiday season.
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and don't you believe it, Carol
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origin-new-glenn-escapade-mars-launch-webcast
https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC50LQEsFVU
Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launch a NASA 'ESCAPADE' to Mars today
November 9, 2025
After a year of delay, NASA's next Mars mission is ready to launch on Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket, and you'll be able to watch it all live online.
The twin ESCAPADE Mars probes are scheduled to lift off atop the partially reusable New Glenn from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday (Nov. 9), during a 2.5-hour window that opens at 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 GMT).
You can watch the launch — the second-ever for New Glenn — live via Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, starting at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT). Space.com will carry the feed as well on our YouTube channel on at the top of this page.
ESCAPADE (short for "Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers") will be the first Mars mission to launch in more than five years, since NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter lifted off together on July 30, 2020. The mission was originally scheduled to launch in October 2024, but NASA postponed the flight to no earlier than spring 2026 to avoid potentially significant cost overruns in case the ESCAPADE team was unable to launch on time.
"It's been a long road, and very grateful to all the partners that have worked so hard with us for so many years," ESCAPADE principal investigator Robert Lillis of the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, which is overseeing the mission for NASA, told reporters in a prelaunch briefing on Saturday (Nov. 8).
UC Berkeley, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab (which built the twin ESCAPADE probes) hosted the press briefing. NASA was not able to be present due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The ESCAPADE mission, which costs less than $80 million, consists of two spacecraft, which were built by Rocket Lab and will be operated for NASA by the University of California, Berkeley.
That latter fact explains the duo's names — Blue and Gold, which are UC Berkeley's school colors.
New Glenn will launch Blue and Gold toward the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2), a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) beyond our planet.
The pair will hang out there for 12 months while studying space weather. They'll loop by Earth in November 2026, getting a gravitational boost from our planet to head out to Mars, which they'll reach about 10 months later.
This complex trajectory is required by orbital dynamics: Earth and Mars align just once every 26 months for efficient interplanetary travel, and the next such window opens in late 2026.
"We are using a very flexible mission design approach where we go into a loiter orbit around Earth in order to sort of wait until Earth and Mars are lined up correctly in November of next year to go to Mars," Lillis said Saturday.
After the ESCAPADE probes reach the Red Planet, they will spend about seven months lowering themselves into precisely aligned orbits, then gather data for at least 11 months.
The orbiters will "fly in formation to map the magnetic fields, upper atmosphere and ionosphere of Mars in 3D, providing the first stereo view of the Red Planet’s unique near-space environment," UC Berkeley wrote in a mission description.
"What they find will help scientists understand how and when Mars lost its atmosphere and provide key information about conditions on the planet that could affect people who land or settle on Mars," the university added.
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Sunday's launch will be the second to date for the 321-foot-tall New Glenn, which can haul about 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit.
The rocket debuted with a successful test flight on Jan. 16, 2025, which sent a prototype version of Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft platform to orbit.
The company failed in its attempt to land New Glenn's first stage on a ship at sea that day. It will try this landmark maneuver again on Sunday, so there will be lots of action for space fans to watch.
"Our number one objective is to deliver ESCAPADE safely and successfully on its way to L2, and then eventually on to Mars," Laura Maginnis, Blue Origin's Vice President of New Glenn mission management, said during Saturday's briefing.
"We also wanting to land our booster, but if we don't land the booster, that's okay. We have several more vehicles in production."
New Glenn's first stage booster will hopefully land on the landing platform Jacklyn now stationed in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 miles off the Florida coast, Blue Origin officials said. It should take up to five days to return to Cape Canaveral, if all goes well.
Maginnis said both the New Glenn rocket and the ESCAPADE payloads are in good health, and the weather outlook is favorable, with a 65% chance of good conditions at launch time.
The 2.5-hour launch window should allow Blue Origin flight controllers enough time to pause if needed to wait out the weather, she added.
Blue Origin originally had three days — Nov. 9, Nov. 10 and Nov. 11 — in which to try and launch ESCAPADE to Mars. But a new wrinkle popped up on Friday (Nov. 7).
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a halt to daytime commercial rocket launches as of Nov. 10 in order to prioritize airspace for commercial air travel.
Air traffic controllers have been working without pay during the shutdown, and the restrictions on commercial rocket launches are aimed at easing the strain on controllers and pilots, FAA officials have said.
If Blue Origin is unable to launch on Sunday, Nov. 9, the company will have to seek an exception to the FAA restrictions for potential launches on Monday or Tuesday since those windows are during the daytime, within a few minutes of today's planned launch time, Maginnis said.
"We are working really closely with both our partners at the FAA and with the NASA team to ensure that we're, of course, honoring and respecting the airspace expectations there and the safety requirements, while at the same time meeting the objectives that NASA and the Blue Origin have for this mission," Maginnis said.
"So, we're working closely with them on opportunities for exceptions to the policy based on how our mission goes."
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Unprecedented radio view of the Milky Way took over 40,000 hours to construct
November 9, 2025
We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it.
From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a place free of light pollution, the Milky Way appears as a complex, busy band of stars and dust.
This is our edge-on view of the dense galactic plane of our galaxy. And that's just the visible light view.
Imagine the sheer extravagance of this structure were it to be captured in radio colors, which can penetrate the thick clouds of dust and gas that block visible wavelengths.
Fortunately, astronomers have now successfully captured a stunning view of the galactic plane as seen from the Southern Hemisphere using a wide range of radio wavelengths.
Silvia Mantovanini, a PhD student at Curtin University in Australia, took nearly 40,000 hours to compile the data from two surveys called the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) and GLEAM eXtended (GLEAM-X).
The GLEAM and GLEAM-X surveys, conducted using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope, yielded abundant data over 28 nights in 2013 and 2014, and 113 nights from 2018 to 2020.
Thanks to significant improvements in sky coverage, resolution and sensitivity, the new image provides twice the resolution, has 10 times the sensitivity and covers double the area of the previous GLEAM image released in 2019, according to a statement from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
Researchers say that only the SKA-Low telescope, an array of tens of thousands of radio antennae set to be completed next decade, can surpass this level of sensitivity and resolution.
This extensive survey view is the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created.
Since most of the imaged region had never been observed at these frequencies, this galactic landscape marks a significant milestone, the researchers said.
The low-frequency radio waves revealed remnants of exploded stars and regions of ionized gas where new stars are forming. The "colors" of radio light captured in the image help astronomers distinguish between different objects in the sky.
The large red bubbles reveal dead stars and their expanding shells, whereas the compact blue regions are where new stars are born.
The surveys contain more than 98,000 radio sources — including pulsars, planetary nebulae and compact star-forming regions — across the Milky Way's plane as seen from the Southern Hemisphere.
The new image captures the stellar life cycle from start to finish: the evolution of stars, their formation in different regions of our galaxy, their interactions with other objects and, ultimately, their death.
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/unprecedented-radio-view-of-the-milky-way-took-over-40-000-hours-to-construct-space-photo-of-the-week
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/galactic-and-extragalactic-allsky-murchison-widefield-array-survey-extended-gleamx-iii-galactic-plane/C95F9B7DC74EC3F9D3DDCD1C43A905BD
https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/
Beckett just sent a Pokemon card to space to prove its grade isn’t just for show
Nov 08, 2025, 11:30
A pristine, Beckett-graded Pokemon card has officially been launched to the edge of space, and it came back just as perfect as when it left.
Trading card giant Beckett partnered with Dragon Shield to send a rare Black Label Pokemon card 120,000 feet above Earth in a custom rig designed by Sent Into Space.
The card, sealed inside multiple Dragon Shield sleeves, endured violent winds and freezing temperatures of -94°F during the three-hour flight, yet somehow landed in flawless condition.
According to the companies, the goal was to prove just how durable Dragon Shield’s triple-sleeve protection really is, and to show that even Beckett’s most coveted grade can survive the ultimate stress test.
Card survived -94°F conditions, remains a perfect 10
After the card’s return, Beckett regraded it and confirmed that it had maintained its pristine Black Label status.
“If Dragon Shield can protect cards in space, imagine what it can do for collections at home,” said Collectivus Holdings CEO Kevin Isaacson in a press release announcing the successful test.
The card will now be auctioned through Heritage Auctions from November 12–19, with all proceeds benefitting The Toy Foundation.
To mark the occasion, Dragon Shield is also releasing limited-edition “Dragons in Space” matte sleeves, the same design that protected the card on its journey.
The space-flown Pokemon card marks a first for the trading card community, combining the world of collectibles with near-space exploration, and proving that even perfection can handle the vacuum of space.
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/beckett-just-sent-a-pokemon-card-to-space-to-prove-its-grade-isnt-just-for-show-3281059/