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Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. View the full article
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)
Will the Sun ever burn out?
Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It’s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen.
Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventually, it will use up all of that hydrogen. But in the process, it’s creating helium. So it will then use the helium. And it will continue to use larger and larger elements until it can’t do this anymore.
And when that happens, it will start to expand into a red giant about the size of the inner planets. Then it will shrink back down into a very strange star called a white dwarf — super hot, but not very bright and about the size of the Earth.
But our Sun has a pretty long lifetime. It’s halfway through its 10-billion-year lifetime.
So the Sun will never really burn out, but it will change and be a very, very different dim kind of star when it reaches the end of its normal life.
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In recent months, Earth has been experiencing a string of bizarre and unsettling phenomena. Massive power outages have struck Spain and Portugal, with similar blackouts occurring across the globe. Aircraft have inexplicably crashed or fallen from the sky. Lights - streetlamps, billboards, car headlights, even indoor lighting are flickering erratically, and the problem persists.
Power failures have disrupted air traffic control centers. Strange, unexplained noises have been heard coming from the sky. In parts of the U.S., blue rain has reportedly fallen. The Schumann Resonance, Earth’s natural electromagnetic frequency, has spiked dramatically. Most disturbing of all, now birds have been seen suddenly dropping dead, either mid-flight or while perched on power lines.
It feels as if the planet is enveloped in a powerful, unseen force, an invisible energy field swarming the Earth, disrupting both man-made and natural systems. But where is it coming from?
One theory suggests that we may be experiencing the delayed impact of a massive astronomical event that occurred thousands of years ago, such as a supernova, the cataclysmic explosion of a dying star. These cosmic blasts release enormous amounts of electromagnetic radiation, including gamma rays and X-rays, which can travel across space for thousands or even millions of years before reaching other celestial bodies, like Earth.
Interestingly, some scientists have speculated that a gamma-ray burst from a distant supernova might have triggered the Ordovician mass extinction around 440 million years ago. If such radiation can wipe out entire ecosystems, could a similar event be silently influencing the strange phenomena we're seeing today?
It might sound improbable, but what if Earth is now being bathed in residual energy from a long-past cosmic event, energy that is only just now arriving and interacting with our atmosphere and technology?
And if that's true… could these strange occurrences be the early signs of something even more serious to come?
Additional: MrMBB333, a well-known YouTuber, is also closely following these remarkable events. He shares daily live footage from around the world and often questions what is truly happening. In his latest video below he shares the mystery of the birds dropping dead while perched on power lines.
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X-FLARE Update - Did You See This Giant Solar Flare Today? 13th May - AR4086 Flare and CME
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