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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
October 9, 2026
Stickney Crater
Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose material slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface. The origin of the curious grooves along the surface is mysterious but may be related to tidal stresses experienced by close-orbiting Phobos or the crater-forming impact itself.
https://science.nasa.gov/apod/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozVg2EEfqx8
It fit the criteria so I tactically extracted it.
It's an actual business out of Hawaii.
Who knew?
https://thequantumbaker.com/
Ozone 80% Hit, Answer to Universe, Solar Storm | S0 News and finally another Friday with frens!
Oct.9.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKrkNOtGxVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvo8Bzhg-I (S0 News: Solar Storm Arrival Pre-Show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJfUH9RMPo (Global Crisis: Global Food Crisis: The Biggest Climate Threats)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAR2O8nKh2g (Mr Weatherman: Hurricane Isaias to become a MAJOR Hurricane…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1PQY04stf8 (On the Pulse with Silki: Mysterious CRASH of a Tanker and two large Cargo Vessels in the Dark in a Fjord in Norway !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5clnRb37a0 (Ray's Astro: SUPER EL NIÑO 2026 | The Pacific Reversed. Now Comes the Storm Train)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCzw5I_0w2M (Max Velocity: Hurricane Isaias Just Got WORSE…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO-FoaieAxo (dutchsinse: 10/08/2026 New Deep Earthquakes Expanded seismic watch to Europe – BE PREPARED)
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solar
https://watchers.news/2026/10/09/g2-geomagnetic-storm-forecast-for-october-9-as-cme-approaches-earth/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1419220-m686-solar-flare-triggers-radio-blackout-as-cmes-head-toward-earth
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/northern-lights-28-states-weekend-us-267243-20261009
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wildfires
https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/man-who-sparked-massive-saskatchewan-wildfire-sentenced-to-six-years-in-prison/
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/local/wildfire-winds-could-trigger-pg-e-shutoffs-across-17-counties/article_20a21574-5431-419d-8e1e-8f741ace2c64.html
https://rollingout.com/2026/10/09/danny-fire-i5-grapevine-gorman-closure/
https://www.arise.tv/malaysia-shuts-schools-for-two-million-students-as-indonesian-wildfire-haze-worsens/
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storms and floods
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/trump-administration-denies-illinois-request-for-emergency-assistance-after-severe-august-storms-97406.cfm
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16196351/Britain-broadband-blackout-El-Nino.html
https://www.hjnews.com/world/aptopix-chile-severe-weather-floods/image_94d539bd-c005-5755-95a6-30aada3d3e8f.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/asia/vietnam-mobilizes-troops-after-heavy-rains-trigger-flash-floods-and-raise-risks-of-landslides/article_8da775e4-6590-5b25-9f26-1c68cd75f22d.html
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/floodwaters-overwhelm-thailand/
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tornadoes
https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/10/09/double-waterspout-turns-into-tornado-in-sicily-as-cars-are-overturned-and-school-is-badly-damaged/
https://watchers.news/2026/10/09/powerful-tornado-damages-school-and-homes-in-marsala-disrupts-transport-in-western-sicily-italy/
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hurricanes and frens
https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/hurricane-isaias-fill-your-bathtub/
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/4623262/hawaii-guard-concludes-hurricane-recovery-operations/
https://ema.alabama.gov/15309/dangerous-isaias-to-make-landfall-this-evening/
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/hurricane-isaias-to-move-swiftly-onshore-along-central-gulf-coast-friday-night-with-flooding-high-winds/1942566
https://weather.com/2026/10/09/storms/hurricane/hurricane-isaias-forecast-gulf-coast-louisiana-alabama-florida
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2026/10/09/564005/oil-companies-evacuate-offshore-facilities-in-preparation-for-hurricane-isaias/
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/which-us-cities-forecast-see-worst-impacts-hurricane-isaias
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16196459/hurricane-isaias-path-storm-track-2026-florida-alabama-georgia.html
https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/simon-strengthens-into-hurricane-forecast-to-reach-category-4-amid-rare-triple-tropical-threat/1943688
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/disturbance-threatens-flooding-as-koguma-strengthens/article_2461984e-0168-428a-8feb-e014bc31b952.html
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earthquakes
https://arkansasradio.com/2026/10/3-earthquakes-arkansas-tennessee-october-2026/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-09/magnitude-3-2-earthquake-rattles-long-beach-after-midnight
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-48622-haiti-flash-41-magnitude-earthquake-in-grand-anse.html
https://www.samaa.tv/2087358228-earthquake-of-4-6-magnitude-hits-swat-surrounding-areas
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/gippsland-rocked-by-nine-earthquakes-in-nine-days-as-experts-warn-of-aftershocks/news-story/320d44bca206b2f519f4f1fd8b09e6aa
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/1041883/bitung-earthquake-magnitude-5-2-tremor-strikes-off-indonesia/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/23421690/mag5quake-Oct-8-2026-Northern-Mid-Atlantic-Ridge.html
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/earthquake-sparks-panic-as-residents-flee-homes-in-kagera-5625550
https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/magnitude-63-earthquake-strikes-vanuatu
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volcanoes
https://watchers.news/2026/10/09/the-weekly-volcanic-activity-report-october-1-7-2026/
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-remembering-a-time-when-i-forgot-hawaii-has-earthquakes
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/active-kilauea-forces-immediate-trail-closures-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park
https://www.dailypost.vu/news/minor-eruption-at-ambrym-volcano/article_0e0c39bd-ce12-567e-ba43-205d931486ce.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/taal-volcano-near-manila-briefly-erupts-raising-fresh-concerns-over-volcanic-in-philippines-101791537499069.html
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dailys
https://schumannresonance.today/
https://www.weather.gov/
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@0.0,0.0,3.0z
https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Could-El-Ni%C3%B1o-Increase-Winter-Tornado-Risk
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/374393/Volcano-earthquake-report-2026-10-09.html
https://www.spaceweather.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=10&year=2026
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like more refreshments?
https://www.history.com/articles/tunguska-event-cause-asteroid
other space objects and fireballs
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593044-two-large-asteroids-found-spinning-as-fast-as-fairground-ride/
What Caused Siberia’s Mysterious Tunguska Event?
Last Updated: October 08, 2026
Experts suspect the massive 1908 event that flattened forests was caused by an exploding asteroid. Could it happen again?
On the morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over a remote part of Siberia sent shock waves through the ground, flattened trees for hundreds of square miles around and triggered wildfires.
The few local reindeer herders who witnessed the event described a fireball trailing smoke across the sky, followed by a flash brighter than the sun and a thunderous boom.
Explanations of the Tunguska event have abounded since it happened—including the idea that it was an exploding alien spacecraft.
Scientists now generally believe a giant asteroid was responsible: The space rock, estimated to have been up to 300 feet across, exploded about 3 to 6 miles above Earth’s surface.
Still, many questions remain.
“After more than a century of investigations, the ongoing debates and the enduring scientific interest in the Tunguska event demonstrate that we still do not fully understand what happened,” says geophysicist Luca Gasperini of Italy’s National Research Council, who has led two expeditions to the area.
Gasperini stresses that understanding what happened in 1908 is critical in case similar phenomena happen again. A Tunguska-like event in a more populated area could, he argues, “produce devastating and possibly global consequences.”
Investigating the Tunguska Blast
The event is named after Siberia’s Tunguska River that's in a region so remote that almost no one lived there in 1908 and few people live there today.
Gasperini traveled to the area in 1999 and was struck by its isolation. “The overwhelming sensation was that I had reached the end of the world,” he says.
In fact, the first reports that something big had happened in June 1908 didn’t appear in Russian newspapers until a few weeks later.
Bright lights had been seen in the sky, windows in remote towns had been shattered and loud rumblings like thunder had been heard throughout the region.
It would be nearly 20 years before the first scientific investigators arrived in 1927. Even then, however, what researchers found was astonishing.
Photographs show the blast had leveled more than 800 square miles of forests, toppling more than 80 million trees.
Soviet mineralogist Leonid Kulik, who led the expedition, thought the blast had been caused by a massive meteorite hitting the ground. But he never found a crater, meteorite fragments or any chemical evidence of an impact.
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When Gasperini and his team first visited more than 90 years after the event, much of the forest had regrown and trees obscured the damage.
But signs remained, including trees uprooted by the explosion, submerged trunks in swamps and a few older trees that had survived the blast but showed abnormal growth rings dating to the event.
Researchers examined resin from surviving trees and identified particles containing iron, calcium, aluminum, silicon and other elements that could be remnants of the object that caused the blast.
What Caused the Tunguska Event?
Scientific debate has offered up multiple theories about the cause of the event. One theory suggests that a comet, rather than an asteroid, caused the blast.
The comet theory holds that the lack of a crater could be explained by the mostly-icy comet breaking up and vaporizing in the atmosphere.
But scientists in 2013 analyzed samples from peat bogs near the Tunguska epicenter and reported evidence of meteoritic material, supporting the idea that an asteroid rather than a comet was the source of the blast.
Most scientists now think the Tunguska event was caused by an asteroid exploding several miles above the ground—an airburst like the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013.
Estimates of the explosion’s energy vary, with some putting it at about 5 megatons of TNT—more than 300 times the explosive yield of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Despite the ferocity of the blast, however, the remote location prevented many deaths. Fewer than five people are thought to have died in the blast, including two Indigenous reindeer herders who suffered injuries from the explosion.
An airburst would explain why no large impact crater has ever been found. But Gasperini and his colleagues have proposed that a large fragment from the exploding object did collide with the Earth, creating the small freshwater Lake Cheko about 5 miles from the blast’s epicenter.
“The lake is young, most likely no more than about a century old,” he explains. Several pieces of scientific evidence gathered during his expeditions support the idea that it was caused by the blast.
In addition, the team’s seismic surveys had identified a “hard reflector” beneath the surface of the lake, but further investigation has not yet been possible, Gasperini says.
Could a Tunguska-Like Event Happen Again?
If Earth is threatened by a similar event, the consequences of an airburst over a populated area—rather than remote Siberia—could be catastrophic.
In 2022, NASA conducted its Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, to determine whether a spacecraft could alter an asteroid’s orbit. The test successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos, a small moonlet of the asteroid Didymos.
But the asteroid was no threat, and the change in its trajectory was minor.
Meanwhile, other proposals for averting an imminent asteroid threat involve nuclear weapons: either by a "stand-off" burst that would vaporize the surface of incoming space rock and send it flying away, or by blasting it into pieces.
“If we have enough warning time, we could potentially launch a nuclear device, sending it millions of miles away to an asteroid that is headed toward Earth,” says physicist Mary Burkey of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
“We would then detonate the device and either deflect the asteroid, keeping it intact but providing a controlled push away from Earth. Or we could disrupt the asteroid, breaking it up into small, fast-moving fragments that would also miss the planet.”
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NASA Announces Bold Science Initiatives for America’s Golden Age Summit
Oct 08, 2026
NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the innovation that will shape America’s future in space.
The initiatives are announced in conjunction with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) “Science: A Golden Age Summit” in Washington on Thursday with top U.S. agency leaders.
The programs reflect NASA’s commitment to pioneering research and transformative technologies and advancing the Trump Administration’s vision as outlined in the July report to the President, Science: A New Golden Age.
One focuses on peer review and the other on fellowship researchers.
“NASA has a proud history of pursuing bold ideas and achieving the near impossible,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are building on that legacy by creating new opportunities for great science, experimenting with how we evaluate and accelerate the best ideas, and investing in the next generation of researchers through the Genesis Mission Fellowships.
We are entering a new Golden Age of American innovation and discovery, and NASA will be at the forefront.”
During a fireside chat, Isaacman and Michael Kratsios, assistant to the President for science and technology and director of OSTP, will discuss the following:
Establishing a coordinated metascience initiative within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to strengthen the reliability, efficiency, transparency, and overall productivity of the agency’s scientific practices.
As part of this effort, NASA is expanding the agency’s use of dual anonymous peer review to ensure proposals are evaluated solely on their intrinsic scientific merit. This approach enhances fairness and supports innovative and unconventional research ideas.
Started as a pilot program during the first Trump Administration, this initiative has helped position NASA as a leader in advancing best practices in scientific review.
NASA will support 10 Genesis Mission Fellows, who are accelerated doctoral students with dual competencies in super intelligence (SI) and science or engineering.
Fellows will work directly on NASA mission areas and conduct research at NASA laboratories, advancing SI-enabled scientific discovery.
The fellowships will be based on NASA’s successful Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology program.
NASA leads the nation in space exploration, scientific discovery, and technological innovation. Through these new initiatives, NASA will continue to inspire the world and drive progress in science and technology.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-announces-bold-science-initiatives-for-americas-golden-age-summit/
moar
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/nasa-demonstrates-next-generation-heat-shield-technologies/
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-12-splashes-down-sets-briefing-to-discuss-mission/
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/supermassive-black-holes/
https://www.nhbr.com/nasa-veteran-joins-unh-to-lead-rd/