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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
December 7, 2025
The Sun and Its Missing Colors
It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our white-appearing Sun emits light of nearly every color, it appears brightest in yellow-green light. The dark patches in the featured spectrum arise from gas at or above the Sun's surface absorbing sunlight emitted below. Since different types of gas absorb different colors of light, it is possible to determine what gasses compose the Sun. Helium, for example, was first discovered in 1868 on a solar spectrum and only later found here on Earth. Today, the majority of spectral absorption lines have been identified - but not all.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Solar Flare Directly At Earth, G3 Solar Storm Forecast | S0 News and frens
Dec.7.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkxcX0qrQOg
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/strong-g3-geomagnetic-storm-watch-valid-09-dec-2025
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/m81-flare-region-4299
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uojM6C4a4x4 (Stefan Burns: This is CRAZY 💥 Undeniable Geophysical Proof that EVERYTHING is Connected Together!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkNNaDIoOHw (Dahboo7: MASSIVE "Black Sun" Mystery Object Caught On CCOR-1 Passing by Sun)
https://x.com/MrMBB333
https://x.com/SchumannBotDE/status/1997622407599661209
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i-atlas-a-friendly-gardener-or-a-serial-killer-b51a449c0dd1
https://medium.com/@davidsereda/3i-atlas-orthodox-christmas-jupiter-alignment-and-what-i-118217106a39
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-update-mysterious-intruder-comet-now-very-bright-active-1760914
https://x.com/AstronomyVibes/status/1997101180321694161
https://x.com/drew4worldruler/status/1997505755658809409
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1997377662223106433
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUBNjM5Ooo (Comet 3i Atlas - What Hubble REALLY SAW - I took a PICTURE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MWnOQQI-g (The Real BPEarthWatch: Comet Mercury/The Last Pole Flip)
Is 3I/ATLAS a Friendly Gardener or a Serial Killer?
December 6, 2025
Spectroscopic observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), were reported here to detect methanol (CH3OH) and hydrogen cyanide (HCN).
These molecules are known to form on icy dust grains in the cold interstellar medium and act as key precursors for the complex organic chemistry relevant to the origins of life.
ALMA detected methanol near 3I/ATLAS August 28, September 18 and 22, and October 1, 2025, as well as hydrogen cyanide on September 12 and 15, 2025.
The pre-perihelion distances from the Sun ranged between 2.6 to 1.7 au (where 1 au is the Earth-Sun separation). The hydrogen-cyanide production was found to be depleted in the sunward direction, whereas methanol was enhanced in that direction.
Some methanol was produced in the gas plume itself at distances beyond 258 kilometers from 3I/ATLAS. In contrast, hydrogen-cyanide production was found to originate from the nucleus.
The methanol production rate increased dramatically from August through October with a power-law dependence on heliocentric distance to the -5.2 (+/-0.6) power.
The derived ratios of methanol to hydrogen-cyanide in 3I/ATLAS are among the largest measured in any comet, surpassed only by the anomalous solar system comet C/2016 R2 discovered by PanSTARRS.
What is the biological significance of methanol or hydrogen cyanide molecules?
Methanol is abundant in star-forming regions. For example, in 2006 the MERLIN array of radio telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Observatory discovered a large cloud of methanol near a newly-formed star (as reported here), and in 2016 ALMA detected methanol in a planet-forming disc around the young star TW Hydrae (as reported here).
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Methanol is a building block for amino acids and sugars (like ribose, a component of RNA and DNA) which are fundamental to the organic chemistry of life-as-we-know-it.
A diverse group of microorganisms including bacteria and yeasts, known as methylotrophs, are able to use methanol as their sole source of energy.
These organisms possess specialized enzymes, such as methanol dehydrogenase, to oxidize methanol to formaldehyde, which is then assimilated into biomass or used to produce valuable chemicals like amino acids.
Methanol is naturally produced in plants, primarily from the breakdown of cell wall components like pectin. Gaseous methanol acts as a signaling molecule, inducing defense reactions in wounded plants and helping to regulate plant immunity against pathogens.
Hydrogen cyanide has been measured in Titan’s atmosphere by four instruments on the Cassini space probe, one instrument on Voyager, and one instrument on Earth (as reported here).
Hydrogen cyanide is a poison at high concentrations but also an important signaling molecule at low concentrations in plants, animals, and microorganisms.
The chemical properties of hydrogen cyanide allow it to serve as a precursor for the formation of complex organic molecules, such as amino acids and nucleic acid bases like adenine.
Some bacteria produce it as a secondary metabolite to inhibit the growth of competing microorganisms by disrupting their respiration.
Hydrogen cyanide is naturally produced by many plants as a co-product of ethylene biosynthesis and in the breakdown of cyanogenic glycosides.
At low concentrations, hydrogen cyanide promotes seed germination and enhances resistance to stressors such as salt, cold or pathogens. At high concentrations, its release acts as a chemical defense against herbivores and pathogens.
In mammals, hydrogen-cyanide production in neuronal cells can activate specific receptors and aid in signal transduction and opioid-induced pain relief.
In World War I, hydrogen cyanide was used as a poisonous chemical weapon by France, the United States and Italy.
Is 3I/ATLAS a friendly interstellar gardener or a deadly threat?
On a blind date with an interstellar visitor, it is prudent to observe the dating partner and decide whether it could have seeded life on Earth by carrying out interstellar panspermia (as discussed in a paper that I co-authored here) or whether it represents a serial killer spreading poison. The anomalously large ratio of methanol to hydrogen-cyanide production by 3I/ATLAS suggests a friendly nature for this interstellar visitor.
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https://usaherald.com/ancient-sky-records-reveal-a-startling-link-between-3i-atlas-anomalies-and-the-celestial-signs-reported-at-the-crucifixion/
https://usaherald.com/ancient-comet-atlas-reveals-patterns-echoing-the-anomalies-of-3i-atlas/
https://medium.com/@davidsereda/3i-atlas-orthodox-christmas-jupiter-alignment-and-what-i-118217106a39
Ancient Sky Records Reveal a Startling Link Between 3I/ATLAS Anomalies and the Celestial Signs Reported at the Crucifixion
December 6, 2025
A 2,000-year-old Chinese astronomical record describes the death of a “Man from Heaven” at the exact moment the New Testament reports a darkened sky.
Ancient observers saw something extraordinary.
The biblical world documented the same moment.
And the patterns echo in the anomalies of 3I/ATLAS today.
By Samuel Lopez | USA Herald – When Chinese archaeologists uncovered the Mawangdui Silk manuscripts and the Eastern Han astronomical annals, historians recognized their importance immediately.
What they did not expect—what few would believe without examining the primary texts—is that Chinese astronomers documented a celestial event in 31 AD that aligns with remarkable precision to the biblical account of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.
This was not a civilization in contact with Rome. There was no Christianity in China at the time. Yet their record includes a phrase so specific, so theologically charged, and so temporally precise that it forces a reconsideration of how ancient civilizations interpreted anomalous sky events.
The Han astronomers recorded that “yin and yang have mistakenly switched, and the sun and moon were eclipsed,” describing a sudden atmospheric darkening during daylight—precisely the phenomenon described in the Gospels.
Emperor Guangwu issued an imperial proclamation stating that “the sins of all the people are now on one man,” and, most strikingly, scholars translating the astronomical manuscript found a line stating:“The Man from Heaven dies.”
The timing matches the crucifixion period, generally placed between 30 and 33 AD. No other record in Chinese astronomy uses this phrase for any figure in any era. The sentence appears once. It appears in 31 AD. And it describes a death associated with a sky event.
When I reviewed these ancient observations alongside the Mawangdui comet atlas—preserved in the uploaded artifact—I was immediately drawn to a deeper pattern.
The comet drawings are not abstract symbols; they are structured depictions of morphology: forked jets, symmetric branching, central luminous envelopes, and directional anomalies.
Several of the forms resemble the rigid, straight, opposing jets documented in recent images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
The ancient atlas categorizes comets whose tails point “against the wind of Heaven,” a poetic but precise description of anti-tail geometry, the same sunward-pointing signature repeatedly observed in 3I/ATLAS through November and December.
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Ancient Chinese astronomers believed that the heavens mirrored the moral order of Earth. A cosmic inversion—yin and yang switching—was interpreted as a sign that something unjust or world-altering had occurred among humankind.
What is stunning is how closely this interpretation matches the Gospel account of the day: darkness over the land, atmospheric disturbance, and the fact that one man bore the sins of all people.
The Chinese description is not metaphorical; it is forensic. They saw a measurable celestial anomaly and recorded it as a physical event with global significance.
The deeper question, especially through the lens of today’s ongoing 3I/ATLAS investigations, is how ancient observers recognized patterns that modern astrophysics is only now beginning to analyze.
The Chinese records describe cometary behavior that defies solar-driven expectations, just as 3I/ATLAS displays a suite of anomalies inconsistent with natural models: symmetrical jets that ignore solar alignment, narrow-band OH absorption lines at communication-significant frequencies, rotational pulsations, green-violet halo flaring, and non-gravitational acceleration.
If the Han astronomers witnessed an anomalous object or atmospheric interaction in 31 AD, their meticulous classification system suggests they were capable of identifying when something in the sky was not behaving like a standard comet.
What makes the historical convergence even more compelling is that the Chinese record does not merely state that a man died. It states that “The Man from Heaven dies.”
It connects this death to an eclipse-like dimming. It links the event to the moral condition of humanity. And it does so in a year that aligns precisely with one of the most documented moments in ancient history.
None of this proves that China directly observed the crucifixion. What it demonstrates, with extraordinary clarity, is that ancient astronomers detected a global-scale atmospheric or celestial anomaly at the exact moment the biblical world described its own.
That convergence—one textual, one astronomical—demands attention. And in the broader context of present-day 3I/ATLAS anomalies, it illustrates that humanity has encountered unexpected and unexplained sky events before, and those events have shaped civilizations that recorded them with reverence, precision, and forensic intensity.
As December 19 draws near and 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest approach to Earth, the ancient record reminds us that not all anomalies are new—and that the most extraordinary sky events often coincide with moments that change human history.
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