Conspiracy

Now conspiracy theorists are claiming that our solar system has two suns

By T.K. Randall
May 1, 2024 ·  28 comments

No, there is no second Sun. Image Credit: Pixabay / Bessi We've heard some pretty strange conspiracy theories over the years ranging from the idea that the Earth is flat to the notion that the Roman Empire never actually existed at all.

There isn't a Picard facepalm emphatic enough, however, to adequately summarize the bizarre nature of another recently revived conspiracy theory that is currently doing the rounds online.

According to its proponents, there is a second Sun hiding behind the one that we see in the sky.

To be clear, we're not talking about the possibility of an undiscovered brown dwarf star in the outer solar system or anything like that, we're talking about another main sequence star situated close by.

Little actual evidence of this second Sun has actually been presented save for a mischaracterization of Sun halos (a well understood atmospheric phenomenon) and a misrepresentation of a joke made by astronomer Paul Cox in 2016 when an orb of light appeared onscreen during a livestream.

"You may be asking yourself, what is that large round thing to the right of the Sun? Well, that's our second Sun," he joked at the time. "I don't know if you knew that we had a second Sun.""But there it is. It is normally hidden from view."

"NASA and other organizations usually hide that stuff away from us."

Despite the distinctly tongue-in-cheek nature of his comments, some people actually believed that what he was saying was true, seemingly kick-starting a whole movement of second Sun believers.

Suffice to say, of course, that there is no second Sun hiding behind the Sun we see in the sky.

The orbital mechanics of the planets would be completely different, for starters, and we would be able to see it, not only from space but from the surface of the Earth.

This is one conspiracy theory that has been well and truly debunked.

Source: Indy100.com | Comments (28)

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