Star Killer

Have you ever sprinkled iron filings into a flame? This is what happens. This is a gas flame with lots of filings, but it's a lot cooler with a candle flame and just a pinch of filings at a time. You can see each tiny explosion. 

 BTW it also works with sugar. When I was a kid I got busted all the time for playing "Army" by sprinkling sugar onto a red-hot eye on the stove. Like an asshole I was pretending to bomb "enemy" villages, but I was a dumbass kid and didn't know any better. As a byproduct of playing Army on the stove, the house would have a wonderful burnt-caramel smell. Don't try this at home y'all. 

 Anyway, for the last several years people have reported reddish-brown dust falling on outdoor surfaces. Many have speculated that it's iron dust, and indeed it sometimes will stick to a magnet. 

 Last year in fact so much of it was being reported that they had to announce an "Official Explanation" about it. They said that it was definitely iron dust, and that it came from a Supernova that happened somewhere in the galaxy. We do know that iron is plentiful in space, from dust-size particles up to boulder-size and probably bigger. 

 I'm pretty sure that iron dust is a byproduct of Supernovae, but none of my guys knew about it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but they keep up with these things and no one heard about it, and amateur Astronomers can usually see them with good telescopes. Whatever, right? Trust the science (SCIENCE). 

 My main info guy says that there's massive clouds of iron dust incoming, and apparently some of it is headed for the Sun. You'd think that any iron dust would burn up long before it got to the Sun, but my guy says there's enough to possibly cause explosions on the Sun. That would not be good. I'm almost positive that this phenomenon has been observed in other solar systems, because he says that some refer to these clouds of iron dust as "star killers." 

 Anyone who's been keeping up just a touch with space weather knows that the Sun is going berserk right now. It's already popped off almost three times more X-Class solar flares so far this year than in all of 2022. We don't want one of those to hit the Earth directly. Humans wouldn't be harmed from an X-Flare, but it'd be bye-bye electrical grid. 

 None of that matters if a giant cloud of iron dust were to impact the Sun, but it's worth noting. So what could happen if a giant cloud of iron dust were to interact with the Sun? See the photo above. Is this "fear porn?" HELL, no. We don't know for sure that it will happen, but if it does, it's better to have at least heard about it, so that you aren't totally taken by surprise. It's not about frightening people. 

 What can we do about it? Physically, nothing, but mentally, at least you'd have a heads-up, and that's a good thing. Spiritually, I'd say to get right with God...immediately. That's what I'd do. It's not so bad. Heads-up, yo.