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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
January 22, 2026
LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion
The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in long telescopic exposures of the region. In contrast, a brighter reflection nebula, vdB 62, is more easily seen just above the dusty dark nebula. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion. With swept-back outlines, the obscuring dust of LDN 1622 is thought to lie at a similar distance, perhaps 1,500 light-years away. At that distance, this 3 degree wide field of view would span about 100 light-years. Young stars do lie hidden within the dark expanse and have been revealed in Spitzer Space telescope infrared images. Still, the foreboding visual appearance of LDN 1622 inspires its popular name, the Boogeyman Nebula.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DwNSnpq-U0
Ultra Rare Aurora, Northern Fires, Space Weather | S0 News and frens
Jan.22.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnyNGJPTa0w
https://x.com/SunWeatherMan/status/2013751875565207915
https://x.com/SunWeatherMan/status/2014150067955892299
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Magnetic_avalanches_power_solar_flares_finds_Solar_Orbiter
https://thedebrief.org/magnetic-avalanche-esas-solar-orbiter-data-reveals-the-cascading-explosions-of-solar-flares-for-the-first-time/
https://royalexaminer.com/follow-up-aurora-activity-continues-after-major-solar-storm/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/biggest-solar-radiation-storm-in-23-years-sparks-northern-lights-worldwide/
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/pilot-captures-jaw-dropping-auroras-that-look-like-theyre-crashing-on-earth-2856008-2026-01-22
https://www.space.com/live/aurora-forecast-northern-lights-possible-tonight-jan-22
https://gulfnews.com/world/rare-solar-storm-sparks-breathtaking-auroras-from-iss-1.500416827
https://www.scmp.com/photos/today-photos/3340812/northern-lights-dazzle-china-us-canada-and-europe-amid-intense-solar-activity
https://x.com/MrMBB333/status/2014092139505070209
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/2014347060007346235
https://x.com/SchumannBotDE/status/2014352651182293444
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rpa0BVVcE (Ray's Astrophotography: BIG Solar Storm 2026 ⚡🌍 Is Earth’s Magnetic Shield Weakening? What NASA Won’t Explain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAdZRo2JTA (MrMBB333: "How are people going to deal with THIS?" Major energy about to collide!)
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/
Expedition to the inner earth with a film crew, when?
cool picture
Tomorrow’s (Tonight's) “Full Moon” Phase of 3I/ATLAS
January 21, 2026
In a new paper that was just accepted for publication yesterday (and published here), I reported with Mauro Barbieri that tomorrow, January 22, 2026, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will arrive at its rare “full Moon” phase — when observers from Earth will see it from the direction of the Sun to within an extremely small misalignment angle of just 0.69 degrees (0.012 radians).
This rare alignment will result in a brightness surge whose magnitude and growth rate could constrain the composition and structure of the particles shed by 3I/ATLAS.
Over the past week, I shared this paper with observers who have access to suitable telescopes with the hope that they will take advantage of this rare alignment of 3I/ATLAS with the Sun-Earth direction.
At solar opposition, the anti-tail jet will be pointing at Earth. The alignment can shed new light — literally speaking — on the nature of the anti-tail and resolve some anomalies (as listed here), such as its unprecedented polarization properties (as reported here and here).
When taking into account the large velocity of 3I/ATLAS relative to the Sun supplemented by the pushback from the solar wind and radiation, the material carried by the anti-tail, including the poisonous cyanide, has no chance of reaching the Earth and affecting our life.
The only exception involves technological mini-probes which can maneuver enough to bridge the gap between 3I/ATLAS and the Earth.
The latest anomaly of 3I/ATLAS that might flag a technological signature is the symmetric system of 3 mini-jets that supplement the anti-tail in 24 Hubble images taken over the past couple of months (as discussed here).
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/tomorrows-full-moon-phase-of-3i-atlas-1107d089b6d5
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/peptides-the-building-blocks-of-life-could-form-on-interstellar-dust-3bd49f0c1bd0
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae3a77
https://usaherald.com/what-nasas-psyche-mission-reveals-about-metal-worlds-and-the-mystery-of-3i-atlas/
https://usaherald.com/dobsonian-power-astronomer-captures-striking-3i-atlas-image-as-rare-january-22-alignment-nears/
https://www.bez-kabli.pl/nasas-tess-pauses-planet-hunt-to-track-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-as-a-rare-alignment-hits/
https://www.space.com/stargazing/watch-comet-3i-atlas-race-toward-interstellar-space-in-free-livestream-tonight
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2026/01/18/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-at-opposition-online-observation-22-jan-2026/
https://x.com/AlfonsoJoseMer1/status/2014079805474414734
https://x.com/stades12/status/2014066761994285303
https://x.com/Tuberoot/status/2014063034151411819
https://x.com/spaceandtech_/status/2014048655230283871
https://x.com/romanov_filipp/status/2013992096298832053
https://x.com/Ammar1176708/status/2013969195461976538
https://x.com/XEmpressMira/status/2014139952351592711
https://x.com/ShanePandeSA/status/2014335593657020905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-GekQ55dA (Dobsonian Power: 3I/ATLAS JET POINTING TO THE EARTH NOW!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tir6MP6UqvM (David Sereda: 3I/Atlas REVEALS Jesus' Greatest Secret - Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjBuuT5p9mo (Chris Lehto: 12,000-Year-Old Comet Warning Encoded in Stone? Göbekli Tepe's Pillar 43)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74h3fNn1ZNY (Albert Stiff and JoshSullivanSpace: NO WAY! 3I/ATLAS Is Doing Something We Have Never Seen Before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htA0TyAo-RI (Jaime Maussan: 3I/Atlas never ceases to amaze. Spectacular images will be available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LpTrbB7wp8 (The Sawalha-Adderleys: Harvard Prof AVI LOEB Interstellar Object 3i/Atlas UPDATE: 3 EQUAL MINI-JETS! SIGNS of PROPULSION?!)
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⚠️ Something Strange Happened Near the Sun… Was It 3I/ATLAS?
2:30 AM · Jan 21, 2026
https://x.com/WorldNews_X_/status/2013922017636937985