https://x.com/TheRubberDuck79/status/2018485117681823751
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
February 10, 2026
In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds – mostly. On the third night of returning to same peaks, though, the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a spectacular auroral display. Arms went high in the air, patience and experience paid off, and the creative featured image was captured as a composite from three separate exposures. The setting is a summit of the Austnesfjorden (a fjord) close to the town of Svolvear on the Lofoten islands in northern Norway. The year was 2014. This year, our Sun is just passing solar maximum, the peak in its 11-year surface activity cycle. As expected, some spectacular auroras have recently resulted.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b26PBUXGN4Y
to bait the lefties and never trumpers?
Mars Organic, Earthquake, Eclipse, Professors | S0 News and frens
Feb.10.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYroJp-RTF8
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1391801-northern-lights-calm-conditions-persist-amid-low-space-weather-activity
https://www.weatherandradar.com/weather-news/lake-erie-remains-locked-in-ice-ice-crack-visible-from-space–3510a4a4-0148-4b3f-858f-42ad84acfffb
https://watchers.news/epicenter/ionospheric-disturbances-from-solar-flares-modeled-as-possible-secondary-triggers-for-large-earthquakes/
https://www.aol.com/articles/severe-geomagnetic-storm-could-stress-005428253.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jVSJeLjyg (Even I Can't Believe this is Happening SO FAST…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZV0opARhM4 (Ray's Astrophotography: HIGHLY ACTIVE Sun in February 2026 — What’s REALLY HAPPENING?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHsurTjyjAs (Michael Clarage: Galactic Rotation Curves | Thunderbolts)
https://www.youtube.com/@ChucksAstrophotography/posts
https://x.com/MrMBB333/status/2020958978168193306
https://x.com/ssgeos_edu/status/2020410148213211442
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/registration-open-2026-space-weather-workshop
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/
HFGCS EAM 260209 15:03 UTC [186 CHARACTER MESSAGE]
Feb 9, 2026
This is a recording of an Emergency Action Message (EAM), which is broadcast by the US military on shortwave radio frequencies referred to as the High Frequency Global Communication System (HFGCS).
I've written an FAQ with more info: https://x.com/neetintel/status/1747439860321796519
This 186 character message broadcast February 09 2026 at 15:03 UTC, by callsign MARIGOLD.
https://x.com/neetintel/status/2021091346853789712
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR5I0s3JPE
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/discovery-of-two-new-interstellar-meteor-candidates-7d03a1b9e87a
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-remarkable-anti-tail-jet-of-3i-atlas-in-new-hubble-images-from-january-7th-2026-a10176dbeb69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tuQwPYbe1k (The Remarkable Anti-Tail Jet of 3I/ATLAS in New Hubble Images from January 7th, 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8ogNGiNaM (Dobsonian Power: IT TOOK THIS 3I/ATLAS PICTURE AND THEN VANISHED FOREVER!)
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/TR1.pdf
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/
https://x.com/WoodyGreen20/status/2021059153272373736
https://x.com/Ammar1176708/status/2021087199769358630
https://x.com/hide2951889/status/2021181605386260723
https://x.com/CollectiveSprk/status/2021197209900126565
Discovery of Two New Interstellar-Meteor Candidates
February 9, 2026
In a new paper that I co-authored with my brilliant postdoc Richard Cloete, available here, we report the identification of two previously unrecognized interstellar meteor candidates in NASA’s CNEOS fireball database.
By exploiting an empirically calibrated uncertainty model from 2025 (reported here), we find two events that robustly exceed the escape velocity from the Solar System.
CNEOS-22 (detected on 2022–07–28 in the eastern tropical Pacific) exceeds escape by 8.7 standard-deviations and CNEOS-25 (2025–02–12) exceeds escape by 5.5 standard deviations.
For both events, none of a million Monte-Carlo realizations yield an orbit that is gravitationally bound to the Sun. The adopted error model would need to underestimate the true uncertainties by factors of 5–9 for either candidate’s unbound status to be marginal.
The discoveries of 1I/`Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS demonstrated that interstellar objects larger than a football field, transit the inner Solar System.
Although smaller bodies evade telescope detection, they can reveal themselves as fireballs when they enter Earth’s atmosphere at speeds exceeding the local escape velocity from the Solar System.
The CNEOS fireball database, maintained here by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a global, space-based catalog providing event-level velocity vectors for bolide detections from U.S. Government sensors.
These velocity measurements enable computation of heliocentric orbits and testing whether an impactor was gravitationally unbound to the Sun. However, CNEOS publishes no per-event uncertainties, and the accuracy of reported velocities has varied across sensor generations.
Previous interstellar meteor reports have focused on IM1 from 2014–01–08 and IM2 from 2017–03–09, based on nominal heliocentric speeds exceeding escape velocity.
Independent analysis of IM1 by the U.S. Space Command confirmed its interstellar identification (as reported here), but some astronomers raised concerns about the velocity accuracy of pre-2018 CNEOS data — arguing that without a calibrated uncertainty model, it is impossible to distinguish genuinely unbound trajectories from measurement artifacts.
The situation improved substantially with a 2025 empirical calibration (reported here) which cross-matched CNEOS events with independent ground-truth networks.
This analysis reveals two regimes: a high-discrepancy regime for pre-2018 events and a low-discrepancy regime for post-2018 events.
This calibration provides, for the first time, an empirically grounded basis for formal statistical assessment of interstellar candidacy.
We analyzed the complete CNEOS fireball catalog of events with reported latitude, longitude, altitude, and three-component velocity vector.
For each event, the Earth-fixed velocity was transformed to inertial geocentric coordinates, accounting for Earth rotation, precession, nutation, and polar motion.
After the Earth’s gravitational influence was removed, the heliocentric velocity was inferred by subtracting the Earth’s heliocentric velocity at the event time.
An event was classified as an interstellar candidate when its speed exceeded the escape speed from the Solar System, given the Earth-Sun separation at the event time.
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Restricting attention to the post-2018 low-discrepancy era, two events emerge as statistically-robust interstellar candidates.
Both have positive heliocentric specific energy at their nominal velocities and remain unbound to the Solar System in all of a million Monte-Carlo realizations. Neither has been previously identified as an interstellar candidate.
CNEOS-22: 2022–07–28
This fireball occurred at 01:36:07 UTC over the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, approximately 600 kilometers west of Peru, at an altitude of 37.5 kilometers.
Its impact energy was equivalent to 0.69 kiloton of TNT and its impact speed was 30 kilometers per second. The heliocentric speed of this bolide is 46.98 kilometers per second, exceeding the solar escape speed of 41.79 kilometers per second.
Under the Monte Carlo analysis, the deviation is statistically significant at a level of 8.7 standard deviations. None of the million draws yield an orbit bound to the Solar System.
The impact energy and speed imply a bolide with a mass of 6.4 metric tons and a radius of about 0.9 meters for a solid density of 2 grams per cubic centimeter.
The air’s ram-pressure at the fireball’s peak-brightness altitude was 5.2 megapascals.
CNEOS-25: 2025–02–12
This fireball occurred at 04:33:39 UTC over the Barents Sea, between Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land in the high Arctic, at 42-kilometer altitude.
Its impact energy is equivalent to 0.13 kiloton of TNT and its impact speed is 22 kilometers per second.
The heliocentric speed is 45.63 kilometers per second, exceeding the escape speed of 42.4 kilometers per second with a difference that is 5.5 standard deviations. None of the million Monte-Carlo draws yield a bound orbit.
The impact energy and speed imply a bolide with a mass of 2.2 metric tons and a radius of about 0.6 meters for a solid density. The air’s ram-pressure at the fireball’s peak-brightness altitude was 1.5 megapascals.
The diameters of both objects, 1.8 meters for CNEOS-22 and 1.2 meters for CNEOS-25, are comparable to the height of an adult person or a 7-year-old kid respectively.
The heliocentric interstellar speeds of the two candidates, 21.5 kilometers per second for CNEOS-22 and 16.9 kilometers per second for CNEOS-22, sample the low end of the velocity distribution expected for objects from the Galactic solar neighborhood.
For comparison, 1I/`Oumuamua entered the Solar System with 26 kilometers per second and 2I/Borisov with 32 kilometers per second, whereas 3I/ATLAS entered with 58 kilometers per second.
The lower excess speeds of the fireball candidates are qualitatively consistent with the expectation that smaller, fainter impactors are preferentially detected at lower encounter speeds, as long as their atmospheric luminosity is sufficient to trigger space-based sensors.
CNEOS-22 occurred over the open Pacific at 3–4 kilometer depth, presenting deep-ocean recovery challenges similar to the IM1 expedition under my leadership with its results summarized here.
The higher impact energy of CNEOS-22 suggests a more massive impactor with potentially more recoverable debris than CNEOS-25.
However, CNEOS-25’s Arctic location (Barents Sea) offers the advantage of a shallow continental shelf (200–400 meters) but the constraints of sea-ice logistics.
Crucially, CNEOS-25 is recent (February 2025), and rapid mobilization could maximize recovery prospects before material redistribution by ice drift and currents.
We live in exciting times, with multiple opportunities to study interstellar packages that just arrived in our mailbox here on Earth. Future expeditions hold the promise of revealing the contents of these packages.
Rest assured, I will be the first to board any interstellar expedition ship.
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KERRY L CASSIDY
@camelotQKerry
EVIDENCE:
MUSK UNACCOUNTABLY SHIFTS FOCUS FROM MARS TO THE MOON! This suggests he has been communicated with by the Anunnaki running Israel and 3I/ATLAS!
https://reuters.com/science/musk-says-spacex-prioritise-building-self-growing-city-moon-2026-02-08/
ISRAEL IS RUN BY THE ANUNNAKI… these people are only serving their alien masters!
https://x.com/danksterintel/status/2021077823662981347
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@MrPool_QQ
You went to sleep after the Super Bowl.
Here’s what Trump did while America slept:
He forced Ghislaine Maxwell before Congress. She refused every question. Then her lawyer panicked and offered a deal: clemency for testimony.
A woman serving 20 years for sex trafficking is so terrified of what Trump is uncovering that she’s BEGGING for a way out. He said NO.
His DOJ released 6 MILLION pages of Epstein files. The result?
Prince William and Kate broke their silence for the FIRST time. “Deeply concerned.” The Royal Family is in full panic mode.
Norway’s ambassador RESIGNED. Their crown princess apologized. An entire country is crumbling.
The chairman of one of America’s most powerful law firms — Paul Weiss — RESIGNED overnight.
Lord Mandelson is under CRIMINAL investigation in the UK.
Larry Summers RESIGNED from OpenAI.
One man released the files. And the entire global elite is falling apart.
Netanyahu flies to Washington Wednesday. Iran nuclear deal on the table. Trump is reshaping the Middle East in real time.
All of this. In one weekend.
They told you no president could touch them.
He didn’t just touch them.
He buried them. ⚡
3:31 PM · Feb 9, 2026
https://x.com/camelotQKerry/status/2021186589808841109
https://x.com/robertkalil1121/status/2020975782420693301
https://x.com/BrunoSantosDF/status/2021074215429153208
SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project, Musk says
Updated February 9, 2026
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SpaceX shifts focus to lunar city, Mars project delayed
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Musk cites civilization's future, Moon is faster than Mars
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SpaceX plans uncrewed lunar landing by March 2027
Feb 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a "self‑growing city" on the moon, which could be achieved in less than 10 years.
SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars within five to seven years, he wrote on his X social media platform, "but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster".
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Musk's comments echo a Wall Street Journal report on Friday, which said SpaceX has told investors it would prioritize going to the moon and attempt a trip to Mars at a later time, targeting March 2027 for an uncrewed lunar landing.
This marks a shift from Musk's long-standing focus on Mars as SpaceX's primary destination. As recently as last year, he said the company aimed to launch an uncrewed Mars mission by the end of 2026.
"No, we're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction," he said in January last year in response to a post on X.
Musk has a long record of setting ambitious timelines for projects such as electric vehicles and self-driving technology that have repeatedly failed to materialize on schedule.
RACE WITH CHINA
The U.S. faces intense competition from China to return humans to the moon this decade. Humans have not visited the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Less than a week ago, Musk announced that SpaceX acquired the artificial intelligence company he also leads, xAI, in a deal that values the rocket and satellite company at $1 trillion and the artificial intelligence outfit at $250 billion.
Proponents of the move view it as a way for SpaceX to bolster its plans for space-based data centers, which Musk sees as more energy efficient than terrestrial facilities as the demand for compute power soars with AI development.
SpaceX is hoping a public offering later this year could raise as much as $50 billion, which could make it the largest public offering in history.
On Monday, Musk said in response to a user on X that NASA will constitute less than 5% of SpaceX's revenue this year.
SpaceX is a core contractor in NASA's Artemis moon program with a $4 billion contract to land astronauts on the lunar surface using Starship.
"Vast majority of SpaceX revenue is the commercial Starlink system," Musk said.
On Sunday, Musk shared the company's first Super Bowl ad, promoting its Starlink Wi-Fi service.
Even as Musk reorients SpaceX, he is also pushing his publicly traded company, Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab, in a new direction.
After virtually building the global electric vehicles market, Tesla is now planning to spend $20 billion this year as part of an effort to pivot to autonomous driving and robots.
To speed up the shift, Musk said last month Tesla is ending production of two car models at its California factory to make room for manufacturing its Optimus humanoid robots.
https://www.reuters.com/science/musk-says-spacex-prioritise-building-self-growing-city-moon-2026-02-08/
Italy Highway Robbery Video: Masked Gang Blow Up Armored Cash Van in Broad Daylight Ambush
Updated Feb 10, 2026, 00:36 IST
A masked gang blocked an Italian highway, detonated an explosive on an armoured cash van and exchanged gunfire with police in a daylight ambush in southern Italy.
Despite the blast, the robbers failed to access the cash, and two suspects have been arrested as a manhunt continues.
Shocking video footage has captured the moment a heavily armed gang turned a major Italian highway into a war zone, blowing up an armoured cash-in-transit vehicle during a brazen daylight ambush in southern Italy.
The attack unfolded shortly before 8 AM on State Road 613, the main route linking Brindisi and Lecce, when between six and ten masked suspects ambushed a BTV armoured van operated by the Battistolli Group.
Some of the attackers posed as police, using vehicles equipped with flashing blue lights.
To force the van to stop, the gang blocked the carriageway with a small truck and a van, setting both vehicles on fire and creating what witnesses described as a “wall of flames.”
Traffic was brought to a complete standstill, leaving terrified motorists trapped as thick black smoke filled the sky.
As the suspects closed in, they detonated an explosive device on the armoured transporter. Mobile phone footage shows the vehicle being blown into the air as flames and debris spread across the highway.
Despite the powerful blast, a foam-based security system inside the van was activated, preventing the robbers from accessing the cash.
A firefight erupted when patrols from Carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police) rushed to the scene. Armed with Kalashnikov rifles and shotguns, the suspects exchanged gunfire with police, using vehicles as cover.
One police car was struck by three bullets, and an unmarked vehicle was rammed during the pursuit.
Remarkably, no injuries or fatalities were reported among police, security guards or civilians, despite the intensity of the violence and the presence of motorists at the scene.
Footage filmed by drivers shows at least six masked suspects in white and black overalls moving between vehicles with weapons in hand as other drivers watched in shock.
Italian media reported that some motorists caught in the ambush were also robbed as the gang fled. The suspects allegedly scattered metal spikes across the road to shred the tyres of pursuing police vehicles and stole cars from passing drivers to break through roadblocks.
Carabinieri later intercepted an Alfa Romeo speeding through the area and found it abandoned in the countryside. Two suspects were arrested after attempting to flee on foot, while at least two others remain at large.
Authorities confirmed the robbery was ultimately unsuccessful, with the gang failing to escape with any cash. Sky TG24 reported the suspects are believed to be from the Foggia area, which is known for gangs specialising in paramilitary-style armoured vehicle robberies.
A major manhunt is under way, including helicopter surveillance, with heightened police presence and checkpoints across the region as investigations continue.
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/europe/italy-highway-robbery-video-masked-gang-blow-up-armored-cash-van-in-broad-daylight-ambush-watch-article-153588023