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VIVA – Last year a Facebook post, which was shared thousands of times, caused a trend because NASA had confirmed that the Sun rising from the west was a sign of doomsday. Sunrise from the West is affected by the Earth rotating in opposite direction. When asked about this, NASA revealed that the claim is not true.
The photo has been circulating on various Facebook posts, shared since January 14, 2021. The posts include an image showing the Sun rising over the ocean.
"NASA confirms the possibility of the Sun rising from the west. Researchers believe that we are moving towards a magnetic field reversal that will bring us to the end of humanity and close to the apocalypse," reads the Thai text superimposed over the image.
Previously, similar claims were circulated in English in 2020 and 2010. However, these claims are not true, according to NASA.
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NASA said that claims about the Sun rising from the west are 'wrong'. More deeply explained, neither NASA nor any other scientific organization predicted the Sun would rise in the west, said Bettina Inclan, NASA Associate Administrator for Communications, on February 20, 2019.
Magnetic pole reversals are a real phenomenon that has happened many times in the past, and scientists around the world study them. But reversals that cause the Earth to spin in the opposite direction and cause the Sun to rise in the west are false.
NASA and other scientific organizations are too often the targets of fake news and scientific claims. This latest hoax is similar to other doomsday predictions in the past.
An article titled '2012: Magnetic Pole Reversals Happen All the Time (Geologically)' points out that this phenomenon has happened several times over the past millennia, and is 'routine'.
"Unlike the classic bar magnet or the decorative magnet on your fridge, the material that organizes Earth's magnetic field moves. There is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that 2012 doomsday scenarios associated with pole reversals should be taken seriously," NASA wrote.
NASA also published an article titled "Why Does the Sun Rise in the East and set in the West? The Earth rotates in an easterly direction and that is why the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars rise in the east and go west in the sky.
