The Northern Lights are visible all across the United States tonight! If you’ve got clear skies, get outside now and look up. Brave the cold, the wind, whatever weather you’ve got — because this is one of the most powerful solar flares we’ve seen in years.
A solar storm warning is in effect, and the auroras are reaching farther south than usual — visible to the naked eye in places that rarely see them. This is a dramatic, historic event unfolding right now. The Sun has delivered a rare geomagnetic storm, painting the skies in waves of color and light.
This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime nights — don’t miss it! 🌌
The photo appears to show a plume of some kind of material on one side, along with emissions off the opposite side.
Cue Harvard scientist, Avi Loeb.. he believes these images of the mysterious interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS could be additional evidence of a type of jet engine or propulsion system on board an alien spacecraft. In recent weeks, the object has captivated scientists’ attentions and peoples’ imaginations on what exactly this thing moving through our solar system is.
And as new imagery has become available, Loeb continues to express concern that this object, which should near Earth in mid-December, may not be a comet but rather an alien spacecraft instead.
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In his blog on Medium, with new imagery in hand, Loeb writes, “The image shows two anti-tail jets out to 10 arcminutes towards the Sun accompanied by a longer collimated jet, extending away from the Sun out to an angular separation of 30 arcminutes, roughly the diameter of the Sun or the Moon. At the current distance of 3I/ATLAS from Earth, 326 million kilometers, these angular extents correspond to spatial sizes of 0.95 million kilometers for the sunward anti-tail jets and 2.85 million kilometers for the tail jet away from the Sun. This enormous spatial scale is three orders of magnitude larger than the scale of the glowing halo around 3I/ATLAS in the Hubble Space Telescope image from July 21, 2025.”..
Avi Loeb and others are stating it is due to the fact that Atlas is an alien craft..
Well maybe it is.
But for now the official story continues to be the shut down..
“NASA is a part of the federal government, which is currently shut down. Communications that do not pertain to the safety of property or life are not excepted,” read a statement sent to LADbible from the agency.
“Imagery will be released once the government reopens.”
Hopefully, that will be before the comet passes the sun and heads back out into space.
So it would be assumed we WILL see Atlas at some point. Maybe edited? Then again.. the editors may be laid off right now, too..
AND JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT WE ONLY HAD ONE!
NASA QUIETLY LOGS ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR VISITOR
Comet C/2025 V1 just appeared in NASA’s official JPL database — and it’s NOT from our solar system.
Discovered Oct 29… nearly 100 confirmed observations already… and its orbit is hyperbolic — meaning it’s just passing through.
Here’s the wild part — it’s NOT connected to 3I/ATLAS, the other interstellar object now in motion.
That makes TWO unbound travelers moving through our neighborhood at the same time.
The Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared “bluer than the Sun” as it passed our local star — which could be signs of an alien craft “engine,” according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
The object’s non-gravitational acceleration was recorded by NASA this week and indicated a dramatic outgassing which would be expected from a comet — and would mean the object would lose half its mass and exhibit a huge plume of debris in the coming months.
Loab keeps making the scientific community a bit nervous openly discussing just how weird this comet is. Whether it is an alien on a ship or just something we have never experienced before –maybe new elements not on our periodic table!– it is exciting and really admirable that he was able to put this comet into the lexicon of our lives…
SPACE.COM has a more conservative approach to the blue light special:
“The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar r [radial distance], remains unclear,” the scientists behind the research, Qicheng Zhang of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC, write in a paper discussing the observation published on the research repository site arXiv.
The rapid brightening of 3I/ATLAS was observed by STEREO-A and STEREO-B, the twin spacecraft that make up Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), by the sun observing Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and the weather satellite GOES-19. The space-based observations were necessary because ground-based instruments won’t be able to observe the interstellar comet again until it passes out from the other side of the sun into its “postperihelion” phase, escaping the glare of starlight in mid- to late-November 2025.
Some have become worried about a path change..,
🚨 3I/ATLAS: TRAJECTORY CHANGE!
Based on Avi Loebs Paper
Did the math: 0.02 mm/s² × 50 days = 86 m/s Δv → enough to line up with Earth
The comet! The intrigue! The potential mothership.
The famed Harvard professor is continuing to make the rounds in various media circuits in preparation for next week’s near Earth encounter with whatever in the world 3I/Atlas really is..
And this time Avi Loeb is hinting that we should be prepared for a potential black swan event!
🚨 3I/ATLAS – Astrophysicist Avi Loeb ; Suspicious comet may herald ‘black swan event’: – Elizabeth Vargas Reports pic.twitter.com/zSxmmB5Z5Y
Reaction to Loeb has been mixed.. some love him. Some think he is punking us all.. He also divides the UFO world, even Richard C. Hoagland had tension on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis several weeks ago when Hoagland angrily asked Lewis to get Loeb on the air so he could debate him..
According to the New York Post, this is the first time ever that an interstellar object has been zoned in on by the group in a campaign, triggering one to sharpen skills and prepare the world for a possible threat from space.
Some of the bizarre behavior includes having an anti-tail, a particle jet that’s directed at the sun rather than vice versa, which is typically how comets flow. 3I/ATLAS also discharged a column that contained four grams of nickel per second, with no iron being present, which is unusual for comets, per The Post.
Before you get TOO Freaked over the threat.. In accordance, IAWN will be conducting a “comet campaign from November 27, 2025, through January 27, 2026”to refine methods for pinpointing ATLAS’ exact location.
“To prepare for the campaign, we will hold a workshop on techniques to correctly measure comet astrometry (a transformation without a change to a figure’s shape or size, such as rotation or reflection),” they wrote. Developing all weekend long in a space near you.
Some believe that IF this flare was earth directed, it could have been “the big one” …
We had a massive coronal mass ejection from what was likely an intense solar flare over the western limb of the sun this evening. Had this been Earth directed this could have been the big one. Will be curious if SWPC gives us some analysis on this. What a stunner. pic.twitter.com/w3nClsFvwB
Astronomers have spotted a star exploding multiple times before — in this same white dwarf scenario, in fact. Instead of instantly resulting in a supernova, however, the pairs’ explosive death is preceded by a smaller blast caused by a cloud of some of the siphoned helium.
But that type of scenario wouldn’t produce a double — let alone triple — GRB, since only one of those blasts is a supernova proper..
Here’s a strange one in the category of space rocks. A rerported Pedregal meteor in Panama is making the rounds on TikTok and other social media, mostly TikTok, and mostly because of videos that showcase a person who seemingly found a flaming meteorite, kept it.
And now it’s beginning to grow tentacles and move. The user has received tens of thousands of comments and even more shares.
They’re calling it the Venom meteorite. In one particular video, he puts a leaf on top of the rock, and the leaf starts to burn. He said he can’t leave it near the sun, or the sun makes it grow. We’re all watching with amusement and enjoyment. But let’s have some discernment.
Others are saying its just a hoax and a spray painted potato..
The story goes that it was hot to the touch on in flames when found, somebody covered it with a bowl, and then strange black tentacle-like growths began pushing out of the rock. Clips of it are being called the “Venom meteorite,” and some even claim it’s a living thing that doesn’t need food, water, or air to survive. It sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, and of course that’s why it’s spreading so fast online.
So far there’s no real evidence behind the hype. No scientists have confirmed a meteorite fall in Pedregal, no labs have studied these so-called tentacles, and no credible outlets have reported on it.
So.. are we looking at a hoax, a misidentified rock, or maybe just mold or fungus creeping across a surface that people decided to make look otherworldly?
If this really were a genuine meteorite with strange growths, wouldn’t it be front-page news in the science world? Until then, it’s just another viral mystery that keeps people scrolling.
We’ll keep watching the story. We’ll keep following. And if this thing truly grows to the point of a Little Shop of Horrors creature, well, we better find Seymour and take care of this before it’s too late.
In a blog post over the weekend, Loeb pointed to observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which showed a “glow of light, likely from a coma, ahead of the motion of 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun.”
A coma is the hazy and luminous cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.
However, there’s “no evidence for a bright cometary tail in the opposite direction,” he wrote, with scientists suggesting it was evidence that dust was evaporating from the object’s Sun-facing side.
The observations led Loeb and his colleagues to an intriguing, albeit far-fetched possibility: is the mysterious space object generating “its own light?”
Get ready for one of the most beautiful nights of the summer—not because of the weather, but because the Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the sky this evening. And it’s arriving alongside a waning gibbous moon, just a few days past full, glowing bright for all to see.
If your skies are clear, you’ll have a perfect view of both the moon’s silver glow and the streaks of meteors tracing across the darkness. The Perseids are known for their magic—quick, bright flashes that vanish as suddenly as they appear.
It’s the perfect excuse to grab the hand of someone you love, spread a blanket on the grass, and lie back beneath the vast summer sky. The season is fleeting, and nights like this are rare. Step outside, breathe in the warm air, and let the meteors remind you that beauty often lasts only a moment—so don’t miss it.
Discovered Oct 29… nearly 100 confirmed observations already… and its orbit is hyperbolic — meaning it’s just passing through.
