A sudden eruption on the Sun just altered the space-weather landscape—and it arrives precisely when 3I/ATLAS continues exhibiting behavior no natural interstellar object should display.
By Samuel Lopez | USA Herald – The Sun did not whisper its warning—its surface exploded with a synchronized sequence of eruptions that immediately triggered new concerns across the planetary-defense and interstellar-object communities. NOAA’s space-weather center confirmed that the X1.9 flare launched a shock wave powerful enough to rattle a nearby filament and ignite a second eruption from the far side of the Sun, sending cascading dimming across the regions that will rotate directly toward Earth next week.
At the exact same time, 3I/ATLAS continues cutting across our solar system with patterns of acceleration, deceleration, and jet asymmetry that have already cracked open the debate about whether its behavior can be explained by natural physics. What emerged tonight is a convergence of anomalies from the Sun and the interstellar sky, each one feeding the urgency of the other.
