That is one mighty hole in the Sun!

~NightSky

By Michael Snyder

A lot of really weird stuff has been going on in the sky above our heads. For example, a “once-in-a-lifetime comet” that only comes around once every 160,000 years is about to be visible from our planet…

If you’re a fan of skygazing, make sure you have your eyes to the skies this evening.

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is set to become visible for the first time in 160,000 years – and you don’t want to miss it.

The comet, called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), was discovered by the ATLAS survey sytem, and has been slowly approaching the inner solar system.

Most people have never even heard of this comet, and that is unfortunate, because this is the only chance that we will ever have to see it.

According to the BBC, this comet was at perihelion on Monday…

A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years.

Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is “notoriously hard” to predict, but that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could remain bright enough to be seen by the naked eye.

On Monday, the comet was at perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the Sun, which influences how bright it appears. Experts say it could be visible from Monday night.

Scientists are telling us that those living in the southern hemisphere will have the best chance of viewing it with the naked eye.

Unfortunately, those that miss it now will not get another opportunity for 160,000 years.

Of course it is just a matter of time before the next comet comes around.

According to NASA, there are literally billions of comets in the Kuiper Belt…

NASA estimates there are billions of comets orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt – a region of the solar system home to Pluto – and the more distant Oort Cloud.

That is a lot of giant space rocks.

Sadly, I am entirely convinced that giant space rocks will make a lot of headlines during the chaotic times that are rapidly approaching.

So any time there is a giant space rock in the news, it will definitely be getting my attention.

On another note, it is being reported that an absolutely huge “glowing ring of metal” fell out of the sky and landed in Kenya earlier this month…

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya.

According to the Kenya Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 pounds (500 kg) and had a diameter of more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) when measured after it landed on December 30. A couple of days later, the space agency confidently reported that the object was a piece of space debris, saying it was a ring that separated from a rocket. “Such objects are usually designed to burn up as they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or to fall over unoccupied areas, such as the oceans,” the space agency told The New York Times.

Officials insist that this was simply a piece of space junk.

But none of them can tell us where it originated.

Isn’t that odd?

You would think that it wouldn’t be too difficult to identify a giant ring of metal that is over 8 feet wide and that weighs more than 1,000 pounds.

But so far, this is an unsolved mystery…

Since those initial reports were published in Western media, a small band of dedicated space trackers have been using open source data to try to identify precisely which space object fell into Kenya. So far, they have not been able to identify the rocket launch to which the large ring can be attributed.

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On top of everything else, the Sun is starting to behave very strangely once again.

All over social media, people are talking about an absolutely enormous coronal hole that spans “1/4 of the circumference of the Sun”…

A huge coronal hole spanning 1/4 of the circumference of the Sun is opening, allowing unusually fast solar winds to head towards Earth, #NASA announces.

So far, the mainstream media in the western world is not really talking much about this story, but I did find a news outlet overseas that is discussing it…

NASA reported that a massive coronal hole recently opened across the Sun’s circumference, further letting out an alarmingly fast stream of solar wind reaching speeds up to 800 km/s, towards the Earth causing concern and panic across social media.

The matter in question also sparked debate among scientists about its possible effect on Earth, since it can lead to geomagnetic storms causing disturbance for satellite operations and electrical systems. Moreover, these geometrical disturbances can also result in lower magnetic latitudes.

For the moment, it does not appear that there is a serious threat to our planet.

But this is yet another example of how erratic the Sun has become.

Over the past several years I have written numerous articles about this, but very few others seem to be too concerned.

But I would suggest that they should be concerned.

We could not exist without the giant ball of fire that our planet revolves around, and the recent instability that we have been witnessing is extremely alarming.

Most people have no idea how large the Sun really is. Approximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside of it, and even the smallest change to the Sun has dramatic implications for our climate.

It isn’t a mystery why global weather patterns have gone completely nuts. The Sun has been behaving very strangely, and I believe that this will be an enormous story during the years ahead.

So let’s keep a close eye on the sky, because the weirdness that we have seen so far is only just the beginning.