The Black Star, Magnetars, and Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 7

[Author’s Note: I have decided to continue this series indefinitely as a running commentary on Comet 3I ATLAS until it encounters the planet Jupiter. Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to previous installments.]

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We are quite certain now that Comet 3I/ATLAS has caused major flaring on the far-side of the Sun. This is a unique situation.

While comets usually do not have such a dramatic effect unless they are sun-diving comets, Comet 3I/ATLAS, on the other hand, has achieved this with “action at a distance,” (McCanney), either because of its size and tidal effects (torque, cf. Patten) or more likely because of its electromagnetic effects.

Unlike perhaps many comets which may be residual debris from planetary collisions (asteroidal) or accreted bodies from the Kuiper Belt (plasma clouds), Comet 3I/ATLAS has been declared a planetary “seed” from the fragmented core of a stellar nova.

The Comet’s core is said to be made of almost pure nickel, a refined elemental composition which some have speculated to be the result of artificial (i.e. intelligent) design. As a Christian, I believe the “design” of a supernatural “intelligence” is a sufficient explanation without resorting to speculations about space aliens. We are only just now discovering God’s works of creation scientifically (i.e. Newton) and should content ourselves with a worshipful admiration of His Providential power.

The presence of nickel from an exploded star would represent a transmutation process in which such a star had achieved a remarkable concentration of heavy isotopes in its core along with a powerful magnetic field. Hence, our Comet 3I/ATLAS as a fragment from such a star would be a magnetar, which explains its tremendous power over the Sun.

NASA feeds went down when the Comet passed Mars. We do not know, and may never know, what effect it had on that planet. It was mentioned that one of the Comet’s nine companions peeled off toward Mars just before the feed was cut. It is possible that amateur astronomers will be able to identify it if Mars captured it as a new moon or if it crashed into the planet, there would be new crater evidence. We just don’t know. This will take time.

Regardless, the Comet’s impact on the Sun has been quite obvious and as it pulls away toward Jupiter, if it is a magnetar, we should see similar effects on our Sun’s junior partner. As noted before, Jupiter is an unlit star which emits more radiation than it receives from the Sun. We should expect to see electromagnetic anomalies as the Comet passes it, perhaps dramatic storms.

While I do not expect anything more dramatic than that, the effects of Comet Shumaker-Levy from the 1990s must not be forgotten. Shumaker-Levy was much smaller and created its effects by a planetary collision. But if Comet 3I/ATLAS is a magnetar, “action at a distance” should occur without a collision. If Jupiter should brighten, this would be observable to amateur astronomers and we need not be dependent upon NASA and the space agencies of other governments.

Comet 3I/ATLAS represents the third known “interstellar” object which has entered – and left – our solar system in recent years. It may suggest that our solar system has entered an area of our galaxy in which a wave of such comets are being encountered along with the galactic current sheet which Davidson and others believe will cause the next solar nova.

Comet B-B is expected to approach the orbit of Saturn in the early 2030s. A “thousand times” larger than any known comet, it may also be just such a “magnetar.” Mr. Weston’s mysterious “Black Star” – still without coordinates – has been specifically described as physically small, but electromagnetically powerful. Might it, too, be a magnetar? And if so, might there be others yet undetected which will be harbingers of the next solar catastrophe?

We shall see.

As Jesus complained of His generation: “Can ye not discern the signs in the heavens?” What kind of “signs” was He talking about? Are we just as unenlightened as were His contemporaries?

… to be continued

JWS, 11/8/25

The Black Star, Magnetars, & Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 1

The Black Star, Magnetars, and other Celestial Anomalies, Pt. 2

The Black Star, Magnetars, and Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 3

The Black Star, Magnetars, and Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 4

The Black Star, Magnetars, and Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 5

The Black Star, Magnetars, and Other Celestial Anomalies, Part 6