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does he have a flying machine though?
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
October 7, 2026
Supernova Remnant Pa 30
"Happy New Year!" No, wait, this is not a fireworks display. This image shows Nebula Pa 30, observed with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawai'i. It is likely the remnant of an old supernova explosion: separate historical records by Chinese, Japanese and Arabic astronomers tell of a "guest star" that appeared in the sky for 185 days in the year 1181. It is believed that this bright new point of light came from the supernova that caused the fireworks in Pa 30. Astronomers don't know exactly what happened in this unusual explosion, classified as a Type Iax supernova, but it is thought to be caused by the merger of two white dwarfs. The mysterious central star in the image is extremely hot and produces a strong wind, possibly forming the radial filaments. Look closely at them: those pearl-like knots stringing the filaments are 4 light-days in diameter. Understanding how a supernova created this amazing nebula continues an 845-year old mystery (and counting).
https://science.nasa.gov/apod/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eojG1MuEck
Solar Storm & Hurricane This Week | S0 News and 10:7 frens
Oct.7.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3d0l93_B4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyeL7_gz0u8 (David Nino Rodriguez and S0 News: THE ELITES ESCAPE PLAN? Denver Airport & Massive Pole Shift Before 2040)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOvK15Ltby8 (Sen4K: Storm Views From Space: Earth in Motion | World Space Week 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngj6sHo-oBg (Time For Truth: Hurricane Polo Rapidly Intensifies to Category 5 | Mexico Hit by Powerful Storm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjF9RcMOtbk (Mr Weatherman: Hurricane Impacts coming as Isaias gets Stronger…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsIbJVxHh4 (MrMBB333: YOU PROBABLY WON'T SEE THIS ON THE EVENING NEWS!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJGhCyDHvs On the Pulse with Silki: Guatemala Disaster JUST ESCALATED — The Ground Is Giving Way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhU8AwaoxE (EarthMaster: Earthquake activity in Nevada on the Railroad valley fault capable of 7.5 Earthquake)
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solar
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-watch-09-oct
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2026/10/06/a-full-halo-cme-is-headed-for-earth—now-we-wait/
https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/powerful-solar-eruption-could-supercharge-the-northern-lights-this-week
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wildfires
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/esa-and-aee-launch-8-earth-observation-projects-to-tackle-spanish-wildfires/74509/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/woman-burned-fire-el-dorado-22465301.php
https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/10/06/boulder-county-wildfire-triggers-evacuation-warnings-from-allenspark-to-hall-ranch/
https://www.the-independent.com/f1/singapore-air-quality-levels-marina-bay-f1-race-b3062613.html
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/10/07/wild-wildfires-over-3000-square-kilometres-wiped-off-the-map-of-spain-in-nine-months-triple-the-average/
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storms and floods
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168537
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/winter-forecast-2026-2027-el-nino-to-reshape-snow-cold-in-us/1940765
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/much-colder-air-snow-coming-to-western-us-in-dramatic-weather-shift/1942780
https://cbs12.com/news/local/port-st-lucie-roads-face-reroutes-as-flooding-leaves-cars-partially-submerged-port-st-lucie-flooding-port-st-lucie-flooding-florida-flooding-flooded-roads-road-closures-road-reroutes-traffic-traffic-safety-partially-submerged-cars-flooded-car
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/weather/severe-weather/gov-reynolds-disaster-proclamation-black-hawk-county-severe-weather/524-3a221ed6-01cf-4e4d-98eb-e4d5143aa930
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/massive-hailstones-fall-amid-severe-storms-in-paraguay-271005765758
https://www.rustourismnews.com/2026/10/06/storms-disrupt-madrid-and-barcelona-airports-as-severe-weather-hits-spain-again/
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2026/10/07/heavy-rains-trigger-flooding-in-philippines039-cebu-communities
https://www.rustourismnews.com/2026/10/07/bangkok-faces-heavy-rain-and-flash-flood-risk-from-october-9/
https://watchers.news/2026/10/07/nearly-1-million-affected-by-floods-in-bihar-rivers-remain-above-danger-level-india/
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hurricanes and frens
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chevron-Shell-and-BP-Pull-Workers-From-the-Gulf-Ahead-of-Hurricane.html
https://ema.alabama.gov/15247/advisories-from-national-hurricane-center-likely-to-be-issued-soon/
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/future-hurricane-isaias-could-revive-deadly-tornado-legacy
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/rachel-to-break-southwest-heat-and-ease-drought-but-with-flood-risk/1942200
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/tropical-storm-isaias-gulf-coast-landfalling-atlantic-hurricane
https://watchers.news/2026/10/07/tropical-depression-nine-forms-over-gulf-of-america-forecast-to-become-hurricane-before-approaching-u-s-gulf-coast/
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/1035841/tropical-storm-koguma-expected-to-strengthen-into-powerful-typhoon-in-western-pacific/
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/72493
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earthquakes
https://www.teneriffa-news.com/en/news-en/tenerife-news/canary-islands-record-55-tremors-as-latest-earthquake-strikes-near-tenerife_1478947.html
https://www.fananews.com/language/en/3-5-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-north-of-kirkuk/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1317448/eight-earthquakes-recorded-off-kasos-strongest-measured-at-magnitude-4-1/
https://www.fananews.com/language/en/4-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-south-sandwich-islands-in-atlantic-ocean-2/
https://journalarta.com/en/2026/10/07/magnitude-5-lombok-earthquake-bali/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/23418432/mag5quake-Oct-7-2026-British-Indian-Ocean-Territory-Chagos-Archipelago-Region.html
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/magnitude-5-5-earthquake-rattles-alaska-triggering-noticeable-shaking-across-region
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volcanoes
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr9dzy24g2l7o
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/inside-active-antarctic-volcano-gentoo-090328569.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/mouth-of-hell-volcano-may-be-refilling-with-magma
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dailys
https://schumannresonance.today/
https://www.weather.gov/
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/372907/Volcano-earthquake-report-2026-10-07.html
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=10&year=2026
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/07/world/alien-phoenix-planet-dying-star/
other space objects
https://www.livescience.com/space/meteoroids/the-draconids-an-unpredictable-shower-that-can-bring-hundreds-of-meteors-per-minute-has-begun
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/everything-to-know-draconid-meteor-shower-2026
https://paininthepass.info/2026/10/06/meteor-streaks-across-the-sky-causes-bright-flashes-over-big-bear-tuesday-morning-2/
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Finding_Hera_s_way_ESA_s_Flight_Dynamics_team_into_action
https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/viewer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MoWCnmuqw (NASA: Artemis II Crew Saw Impact Flashes on the Far Side of the Moon)
Alien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
Oct 7, 2026
In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can be called a phoenix planet.
Researchers said this exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are called, appears to have been born from material expelled into space during the death throes of a star a bit larger than the sun, and now orbits the highly compact stellar remnant that was left behind, called a white dwarf.
It is classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from the swirling disk of material surrounding a newborn star, as Earth and other first-generation planets did, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star.
“This is the first example of a planet forming around a white dwarf,” said Jamie Williams, a doctoral student in astrophysics at the University of Warwick in England and lead author of the study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The white dwarf is located about 250 light-years from Earth, near the constellation Cetus. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 9.5 trillion km.
The planet is a gas giant perhaps slightly more massive than Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet. It orbits the white dwarf every 4.4 days at only 4% the distance between Earth and the sun.
It is so close that the blazingly hot white dwarf’s extreme ultraviolet radiation is causing the planet’s outer atmosphere to evaporate, with a portion then falling into the white dwarf.
The planet’s chemical pattern points to its second-generation origin.
It is rich in niobium, copper and zinc, the type of elements that certain dying stars cast off when they expand in their death throes, indicating the planet formed from a disk of this expelled material that surrounded the stellar corpse.
“In myths, a phoenix is born again from its own ashes. In the case of this planet, it is born again from the ashes of its dying host star, and therefore the planetary system is reborn.
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A second-generation planet is defined as one born after its host star dies — in this case after it has become a white dwarf,” Williams said.
The researchers used data from the orbiting Hubble, TESS and FUSE telescopes, and hope to use the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm their conclusions.
A small number of potential second-generation planets previously have been identified orbiting pulsars, a rare type of neutron star, another type of stellar remnant.
“White dwarfs are much more common than pulsars, and over 95% of stars in the Milky Way will evolve to become a white dwarf. Therefore, there would be many more second-generation planets around white dwarfs than around pulsars,” Williams said.
While the newly discovered planet would be inhospitable for life, another second-generation planet potentially could be habitable.
“If a gas giant formed around a white dwarf, then a rocky planet could form, too. White dwarfs cool predictably over time and as they get cooler, their cooling slows.
So if a second-generation rocky planet formed close enough to the white dwarf then it could remain in the habitable zone for billions of years,” Williams said.
A second study published in the same journal describes another exotic celestial phenomenon roughly 300 to 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
Researchers used the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory in California to discover a red dwarf star about 8% of the mass of the sun in a tight orbit with a brown dwarf, an object too small to be a star and too big to be a planet.
The brown dwarf is about 30 times the mass of Jupiter and a third of the mass of the star.
These two companions orbit each other every 87 minutes at slightly more than half the distance between Earth and the moon, and the star’s gravitational pull appears to be siphoning material from the brown dwarf.
The researchers detected a hot spot on the star’s surface where this material appears to be landing.
“This is the first observed example of this phenomenon,” said Aaron Householder, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student in astrophysics and lead author of the study.
“The two objects are so close together that the entire orbit would fit inside the sun,” Householder said.
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