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*Let's not mention the Nasa fiasco....*
Namarie! 💙
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Many thanks to The Virtual Telescope Project for making this livestream public, and to all the amateur Astronomers who have brought us some remarkable photos of 3I/Atlas over the past months ~ much gratitude for all your time and effort!
Now we come to the much-anticipated event promised by Nasa ~ the release of 3I/Atlas images taken by their powerful "advanced" (and extremely costly) equipment in Space and on the ground.
Due to timezone difference, I didn't watch the "press conference" until just a couple of hours ago. I did my best to watch the show (that's what it was) but just couldn't go beyond a few minutes 😣 Instead, I looked around online to find what ground-breaking data they had shown. This was the most recent image (2 Oct) from Nasa's own website (bearing in mind the amateur Astronomers have already given us some stunning images from as recent as 17 November):
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That is what's being reported by Nasa's own website.
This is the link for the yt livestream 3pm ET 19 November 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55SUq2eDXg
There will be "briefing participants" at this event and members of the public can ask questions, please check for details at Nasa's site.
We can finally get to see what has been recorded by all the advanced equipment deployed in Space by Nasa and other agencies as well as heavy duty ground telescope arrays.
Please note that The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 is hosting a livestream on the same day but at a different time i.e. 4:15am 19 November 2025, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8gN-J9gY
Definitely something to look forward to!
Namarie! 💜
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Satoru Murata 2025-11-16 11:53:50~12:23:20 UTC |
Yet again, it's the amateur Astronomers ~ and not "official" sources ~ providing us with images, and really good ones at that. Here are some of the latest from ICQ Comet Observations, including the one above:
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The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 is offering a livestream on 19 Nov. 2025, starting at 04:15 UTC.
It was supposed to commence on 17th but has been postponed to 19th due to cloud and rain. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8gN-J9gY
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Avi Loeb referenced these images, so here are the two relevant links:
https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17490
Here is the pdf just for the images:
https://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~jewitt/NOTpictures.pdf
Namarie! 💗
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* Updated 15 November 2025: Added CME clip *
Well, we knew our Sun wasn't quite done yet 😅 That's an X4.05, the sixth X-class flare since 4 November 2025.
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No CME data yet, I will update when available. The Solar storm has cleared up so we will be able to get clear images. (Update: See CME clip at bottom of post)
We had almost 2 days of strong geomagnetic storms:
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There are nearly off-the-charts readings for Solar wind density and temperatures as well, please view them here.
So....how's everyone doing? 😅
Namarie! 💙
Update 15 November 2025:
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Look at the magnitude of that X5.16! Small wonder then that strong showers of Solar particles have been swarming satellites post-flare:
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This was the CME that birthed from the X5.16:
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And since then until at this time of writing, this is what is showing:
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SpaceWeather reports an on-going Ground Level Event:
A 'GROUND LEVEL EVENT' IS UNDERWAY: Yesterday's X5-class solar flare from sunspot 4274 hurled a fusillade of energetic protons toward Earth. Some of the particles are so powerful, they are penetrating the atmosphere all the way to the ground. "This is a very significant event," says Professor Clive Dyer of the Surrey Space Centre. "Neutron monitors around the world are detecting it."
Please read the article at their site here.
I added this afterthought to Part 1:
This makes it five X-class flares since 4 November 2025. I can't help but notice that we've not had any X-class flares for months since 20 June 2025....then our Sun belches out five in a span of 8 days....soon after its rendezvous with 3I/Atlas on Perihelion 29 October 2025.
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3I/ATLAS 2025-11-19 4.05 UT 900/300/300/300 sec 12"/4 QHY 600 Michael Jäger, Gerald Rhemann These two are the same amateur Astronomers ...
