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2026-11-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

A solar flare occurred after a four-day hiatus, scientists say.

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[Regnum] A weak C-class solar flare occurred on November 1, interrupting a four-day period of no flare activity. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Yesterday, Sunday, after a four-day hiatus, a weak class C flare unexpectedly occurred, breaking a beautiful streak of no flares," the laboratory said in a message on its Telegram channel.

No solar flare activity was observed on the morning of November 2. Since the beginning of the day, scientists have not recorded a single new flare.

The first magnetic storm of the fall occurred on September 8th. The event was weak, classified as Category I on a five-point scale. The disturbances were associated with a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun.

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1 Doomed 3,200-pound NASA telescope to crash back to Earth tomorrow as map reveals possible impact zones

NASA has announced that its decommissioned space telescope is set to make a fiery re-entry on Wednesday, warning that some components are expected to survive.

The 3,200-pound Swift Observatory launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and other cosmic objects and events.

It was designed for a two-year prime mission.

After 21 years of science operations, Swift’s low Earth orbit began to rapidly decay because of increased solar activity.

NASA is tracking the telescope as it moves closer to Earth, suggesting it will make an uncontrolled plummet through the atmosphere at 3.30am ET, with an uncertainty of 11 hours.

'Re-entry locations of any surviving components can vary from hemisphere to hemisphere and depend on when it re-enters,' NASA shared in a statement.

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2 ^ Possible Scenarios:

1) Elon Musk has less than 24 hours to launch a rescue mission to save the doomed satellite.

2) NASA Spokes-droid: "Look, we're sorry. We had no control over when the debris landed. For downtown Tehran to be struck by a de-orbiting satellite is such an improbable event that the chances of it happening are virtually zero. Despite the fact that it seems to have occurred."

Posted by SteveS 2026-11-03 16:49|| 2026-11-03 16:49|| Front Page || Comments Top

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