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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

October 5, 2026

M104: The Sombrero Galaxy's Tidal Streams

A deep image of the Sombrero galaxy reveals surprises. M104 is named the Sombrero galaxy because, on shorter exposures, it looks like a hat. A key defining feature of this huge galaxy is a dark brim of dust that circles the disk galaxy's center. A much longer exposure, however, brings up a hairy past where a bright, hazy halo is revealed that extends well past the central disk and contains many unresolved stars. Surprisingly, in this stellar haze, structures can be seen that include a diagonal ring. These structures and tidal streams provide fresh evidence that M104 had a violent past and is surely the result of collisions and mergers of smaller galaxies. Light takes about 30 million years to reach us from the Sombrero galaxy, which fully spans about 150 thousand light years across. The featured image was taken over seven days in mid-2026 from Namibia.

https://science.nasa.gov/apod/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslnVzHmnRM

Ozone Getting Rocked, Sun Quakes, Solar Storm | S0 News and frens

Oct.5.2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QppOmlvGpqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Pk0NBdmfc (Max Velocity: The Weather Is About To Take A SERIOUS Turn…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PzOr13IrXs (BPEarthwatch: 70% Chance of Cyclone Formation!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlPD4nBnk94 (Mr Weatherman: Gulf System forming with NUMEROUS Impacts Possible…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mHPSmYSAc (dutchsinse: 10/04/2026 STRANGE THINGS found as seismic activity spreads ANCIENT HIDDEN SITES having EQ's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYDyVlVh3c0 (EarthMaster: Earthquake activity off the Coast of Oregon, Elevated Tremors South end of Cascadia. Sunday Night)

• solar

https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/

• wildfires

https://katu.com/news/wildfire-season/new-bill-looks-to-expand-line-of-duty-death-benefits-for-wildland-firefighters-families-oregon-senator-merkley-wildfire-equal-expanded

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/wildland/news/55409534/lafd-admits-missteps-in-historic-wildfires-outlined-in-ul-fsri-report

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/04/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-defends-visiting-africa-wildfires-raged/

https://abc7.com/story/bouquet-fire-updates-fast-growing-brush-triggers-evacuation-warnings-angeles-national-forest-santa-clarita/19905530/

• storms and floods

https://theecologist.org/2026/oct/05/godzilla-el-nino-coming

https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers/regional-super-el-nino-impacts-northwest-us

https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/scientists-partner-with-pocomoke-city-to-support-coastal-flood-resilience/

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-holds-severe-weather-briefing-activates-additional-state-emergency-response-resources

https://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_sc/charleston-sc-weather-rain-day-record/article_bc8f28d2-261e-45cf-9b73-2171ef7084e1.html

https://www.al.com/weather/2026/10/waterspouts-and-flash-flooding-reported-in-south-alabama-sunday.html

https://www.thetraveler.org/catalonia-travel-alert-as-storms-disrupt-barcelona-flights/

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16183923/El-Nino-flowers-bloom-Atacama.html

https://english.ratopati.com/story/82445/thailand-warns-of-more-rain-flood-death-toll-rises-to-31

https://www.myanmaritv.com/news/nine-dead-floods-submerge-seven-prachin-buri-districts

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• hurricanes and frens

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/el-nino-fuels-tropical-activity-surge-pacific

https://weather.com/2026/10/05/storms/hurricane/tropical-storm-isaias-could-form-in-gulf

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/flooding-downpours-to-soak-southeast-as-gulf-coast-tropical-threat-emerges/1941764

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/hurricane-nolo-crosses-international-date-line-becomes-typhoon-nolo/1941971

https://newsonjapan.com/article/150951.php

• earthhquakes

https://kashmirlife.net/magnitude-3-2-earthquake-strikes-pulwama-tremors-felt-across-kashmir-455197/

https://sarajevotimes.com/3-2-magnitude-earthquake-on-the-richter-scale-struck-herzegovina/

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/news/371790/Magnitude-36-quake-hits-29-miles-southwest-of-Hilo-Hawaii-United-States-early-morning.html

https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/1030456/m3-8-earthquake-strikes-northwest-of-sortland-norway/

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/10/2-earthquakes-strike-off-oregon-coast-no-injuries-reported.html

https://www.gulf-times.com/article/734860/classified/46-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-lumajang-in-indonesia

https://pragativadi.com/4-9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-afghanistan-light-tremors-felt-in-kashmir/

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/expert-warns-of-continued-earthquake-storm-after-tremors-hit-southern-turkiye-227728

https://www.gulf-times.com/article/734870/international/magnitude-50-earthquake-strikes-tonga-in-pacific-ocean

• volcanoes

https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/misplaced-pearl

https://curiosmos.com/shiprock-volcanic-neck-dikes/

• dailys

https://schumannresonance.today/

https://www.weather.gov/

https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Summers-Not-Done-With-Us-Yet-Warmth-Is-Coming-Back-for-Much-of-the-Country

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/

https://www.tornadohq.com/

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/371524/Volcano-earthquake-report-2026-10-05.html

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=10&year=2026

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is Spewing Gas Surprisingly Slowly, New Observations Show

Oct 5, 2026

Using spectral data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas, astronomers have traced gas from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third object of its kind ever observed, out to more than 85,000 km from its nucleus.

The data suggest the gas flows at about half the speed typical of solar system comets, and the spectrum shows unusually strong signals of iron and nickel.

3I/ATLAS was discovered by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on July 1, 2025.

Also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and A11pl3Z, the interstellar comet arrived from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

On October 30, 2025, the object reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.

“By studying 3I/ATLAS, we hope to learn about conditions in the natal planetary system of this target and/or its long interstellar journey,” said Dr. Anita Cochran from McDonald Observatory and her colleagues.

Dr. Cochran and co-authors observed 3I/ATLAS on December 9, 2025, with the VIRUS spectrograph on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.

The comet was then about 2.03 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun and 1.83 AU from Earth, moving away from the Sun after its closest approach.

The spectra showed the familiar molecules of solar system comets: cyanogen, tricarbon, methylidyne and dicarbon.

But when the astronomers modeled how those molecules are distributed with distance from the nucleus, standard assumptions did not fit.

The data matched only if the gas flows outward at about half the speed seen in typical comets at the same distance from the Sun.

According to the team, one possible explanation is that heavy carbon dioxide-rich gas is slowing the outflow.

The comet spectrum also showed very strong emission lines of neutral iron and nickel, which are likely coming directly off the nucleus in their metallic form.

“The presence of very strong iron and nickel lines in spectra of 3I/ATLAS is an important difference from solar system comets,” the researchers said.

“3I/ATLAS was exceptional even compared to the other interstellar objects, 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, due to its exceptionally high iron and nickel.”

“Wandering around in the interstellar medium should result in the body having high material strength, with iron and nickel metal on its surface.”

“However, the surface temperatures at the heliocentric distances that 3I was observed are too low to vaporize iron and nickel in metallic form.”

“If comets are leftovers from the formation of most planetary systems, and a high fraction are ejected from their formation nebula, there should be many such objects wandering around the Galaxy that can potentially cross through our Solar System,” they added.

“Our Sun, like most planetary systems, probably formed in a cluster of infant stellar systems.”

“The leftover debris of all those stars can, therefore, be influenced by nearby passing stellar systems.”

“As the young stars orbit around the center of the Galaxy, the debris they have ejected will sometimes continue wandering in space, devoid of a star to which they are attached.”

“Thus, unlike a comet in our Solar System that can be influenced by the gravity and radiation of our Sun, these other interstellar comet-like objects may be going into and out of insolation from stars they pass.”

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-gas-flow-15107.html

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/aea086

other space objects

https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/lcrsss-bright-object-seen-over-tripoli-was-meteor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQguNmckr4 (Avi Loeb: The Strange Dust of 3I/ATLAS)