Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – An upload on social media recently claimed that the Sun was doing something out of the ordinary, rising from the West. Even the United States Space Agency (US) or NASA stepped in to explain.
The post was available in Thai and English, which said this activity brought the Earth closer to the apocalypse. The sun rises from the west due to a magnetic reversal.
To support the claim, the author even wrote NASA’s name and said the agency supported the claim.
“Earth will rotate in the opposite direction causing the Sun to emerge from the west side. Researchers believe that we are moving towards a magnetic field reversal that will mark the end of mankind and near the end of the world,” the post said.
But in fact NASA denies these claims. Bettina Inclan, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Communications, said neither her agency nor other organizations had predicted this.
“Neither NASA nor any other scientific organization predicts the Sun will rise from the west,” said Bettina.
According to him, the phenomenon of magnetic reversal is real and has happened. Scientists are also said to be studying magnetic reversals.
But again he emphasized that the magnetic reversal did not make the Earth rotate in the opposite direction and change the direction of the Sun’s appearance.
“The reversal of the magnetic field is indeed a real phenomenon that has occurred several times in the past and scientists around the world are studying it, but the statement that this makes the Earth rotate in the opposite direction which causes the Sun to rise from the west is wrong,” he explained.
The phenomenon of the Sun rising from the West actually occurs on Venus. The planet rotates on its axis backwards.
For information, the rotation of the planet is also quite long, namely 243 days. While Venus revolves around the Sun for 225 Earth days.
With this time, the Sun is only present twice a year, ie it rises per 117 Earth days on Venus.
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